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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 11h
ICE is now separating children from their parents in the nation’s interior and deeming them “unaccompanied.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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“You kidnapped my son”
ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.”
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Casket @casketjones.bsky.social · 22h
I was always really into scary content so not too much got me in a way that I didn't ingest pretty quickly and have fun with. But I've also always been afraid of my very real and impending nonexistence
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Majora Mask Real Moon
Alt: Majora's Mask Moon above a real city
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026
Remember when us phil-tech types said effective altruism was just utilitarianism taken to its worst possible extents? This is what we meant: Real harm for unquantifiable potential benefit. "…'we believe that the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology….'"
politico.com
Sam Altman to Decoded: ‘The world should accept some bad things happening’ for the benefits of AI
The OpenAI CEO sought to distinguish his policy stance from rival developer Anthropic.
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PUNKI (PERPETUALLY POST DEBUT) @pun-ki.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
You should be asking why Rockstar gets to do this and doesn't run into any issues with payment processors, while the rest of anyone drawing or writing "explicit content" on any platform have so much trouble getting paid
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Casket @casketjones.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
so sick of the "gen ai isn't going away so-" Why do you think that? It's not making money, everyone hates it and it's not actually good for anything. Why would it stick around? Maybe it'll stick around as much as NFTs but those don't really have a ongoing running cost
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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.
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Gilamasan @gilamasan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The bill has been opened to feedback. Rather than dooming about the proposal, you can tell them exactly how you feel about the act here. ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet... With how much of an uphill battle Chat Control is having, you should never assume it's worthless to fight these draconian bills.
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European Commission - Have your say
European Commission - Have your say
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
And, for the coup de grace, two bills protecting fire survivors from predatory insurance companies, which he vetoed, deliberately, to punish fire survivors for rejecting his "reform" bill that was actually a huge payout to SCE for starting fires. calmatters.org/economy/2026...
calmatters.org
Newsom vetoes insurance-claim bills: Is it ‘petty’ politics?
California governor rejects legislation sponsored by LA fire victims, who had spoken out against his wildfire-liability effort.
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers
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Black.Metronome 🇧🇧 🇧🇲 @blackmetronome.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
Amazon is too scared to adapt the stories of Jack Reacher brutally killing white supremacists, because it would personally offend the President of the United States.
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Hope For The Planet @h4tp.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We now have rigorous pooled data showing that even without active restoration efforts, cleared rainforest can rebound to 75% of their former species composition and 90% of species diversity within just thirty years. #goodnews
optimistdaily.com
Rainforest biodiversity rebounds within a single generation | The Optimist Daily
A major Ecuador study finds cleared rainforests can recover 90 percent of their species diversity in just 30 years, as long as humans leave the land alone.
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Scotty B. Jordan @ College @scottlandmanor.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
reminder that the united states has NO federal head of arts or even an art department within our government. we have 4 different departments to justify couping other countries and bombing brown children, yet no arts department.
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mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It would be such a shame if more people knew this is the 5th year of UF's "AI Days" genAI festival, and that the genAI art / business proposal contest does not actually check if you are a student before letting you submit things. ai.ufl.edu/ai-universit...
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Gator Create | AI | University of Florida
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Ash G. @kilomonster.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
the answer to the iced coffee is that the interviewer should bring iced coffee for their prospective employee, or whatever drink preference they have because they should be good hosts and care about people and iced coffee would make it feel almost worth it in this hellscape of a job market.
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SoundOfTheForest @soundoftheforest.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
A lot of people have used the argument that AI is here to stay so I should accept it as a tool in my life. If you accept destruction in the world because it is already here don’t be surprised when you face the consequences of that destruction.
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SoundOfTheForest @soundoftheforest.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I have the privilege of being able talk to and work in the field with environmental scientists and entomologist. People have asked why I feel so strongly against AI and it’s because I’m seeing it directly destroy the natural world I care about.
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Keeping it Spooky 🎃 @keepingitgeekly.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
👏👏👏 @boom-studios.com Credit to @azhuoart.bsky.social for the screenshot
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Rep. Dr. Jasmine Clark @jasmineclarkforga.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The superintendent of Cobb County just banned Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye from school libraries. I read this book as a student in Cobb County. It was part of my education, not something that needed to be hidden from me.
thecurrentga.org
Georgia school system abruptly bans Toni Morrison’s ‘The Bluest Eye’ - The Current
Cobb County Schools Superintendent Chris Ragsdale announced the removal of Toni Morrison's 'The Bluest Eye' from school libraries, sparking criticism from advocates who claim the district bypassed est...
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Hasira 🍁🪴 @hasira.me · 22/09/2026
I’m gonna actually make a raffle where you can win 1 (small webiste page with max 3 subpages) of your idea. 📜 rules: 🟦 follow 🟦 repost 🟦 like Raffle will be closed at 30 sep. Every new 1000 followers there will be +1 winner. It will be good if you already have a domain. I will host your page.
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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The fact that every major news outlet includes vocal tics and hesitations when it’s a woman saying “like” and not when it’s a man saying “um” is itself wicked telling.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026
The AI industry wants you to say "the AI just did that thing on its own!" Like, United Health's AI that's denying a shitload of claims with a 90% error rate? They wanted you to think it's just the AI.
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Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
when you interact with an object or environment produced by people, every single part of it is downstream of active human choices. and that means they can be legislated. for example: we can make it illegal for chatbots to call themselves "i" and pretend to be a person. that is a deliberate trick.
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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Absolutely horrific: Thanks to a false intelligence "generated with the help of artificial intelligence," the US military nearly carried out an operation aboard a Chinese ship because the incorrect intelligence said it was carrying nukes, according to @cnn.com. edition.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...
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Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics
The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war
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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
holy shit, this is the whole ballgame in a single paragraph gAI systems require mass theft of copyrighted works, for the explicit purpose of replacing the market for the people they stole from, and the people in charge knew what they were doing ahead of time, and did it anyway
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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
IDEM: Developers must not clear trees within the project boundaries from April through September to protect the federally endangered Indiana Bat and the federally threatened Northern Long-Eared Bat Me: Well, that's not nothing IDEM, glaring at me: Unless they obtain a special waiver. Me: Oh. Ok.
wane.com
IDEM approves Google’s request to fill more protected wetlands
The Indiana Department of Environmental Management (IDEM) decided to approve a permit that will allow the developers of the Google Data Center in Fort Wayne to fill more protected wetlands.
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Center for Democracy & Technology @cdt.org · 15/09/2026
Congress should not let companies take advantage of such exemptions to deploy AI without necessary accountability measures to prevent harms to consumers.
cdt.org
Coalition Urges Senate Not to Let Companies Waive Financial Regulations for AI - Center for Democracy and Technology
CDT joined AI Now Institute, American Civil Liberties Union, and several organizations dedicated to tech policy, consumer protection, and civil rights in a letter to Senate leadership and the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee opposing the “AI Innovation Labs” language in Sec. 10509 of the CLARITY Act.
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Siliconera @siliconera.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Shueisha shared a new survey on its Shonen Jump Manga Plus site that asks quite a few questions about how folks feel about AI translations for series. www.siliconera.com/shueisha-man...
siliconera.com
Shueisha Manga Plus Survey Asks About AI Manga Translations
Shueisha shared a survey asking questions about AI manga translations on its Shonen Jump Manga Plus site in September 2026.
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 14/09/2026
Tech oligarchs agree calling AI "too dangerous" way cooler than just admitting it doesn't work
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Tech oligarchs agree calling AI "too dangerous" way cooler than just admitting it doesn't work
SILICON VALLEY - The CEOs of OpenAI, Anthropic, and GrokAI have released a statement agreeing that claiming artificial intelligence "could potentially kill all humans" sounds much more awesome than just admitting that they blew a fortune on glorified chatbots.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 14/09/2026
So they're gonna kill your kids.
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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
they're going to "scale back" because AI is bottoming out, and then say they did it out of the goodness of their hearts and interest in humankind
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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
if you learn a skill or start a new hobby, it makes you a better person, not worse. nobody ever gets into calligraphy and immediately starts screeching that typefaces are useless and only the quill shall prosper. there is no "woodworking psychosis" nobody thinks they're dating their kettlebell
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Marcus @marcusjmerritt.com · 09/09/2026
If your reaction to these astoundingly complex programs surprising you is to conclude there must be a ghost in there, you should stay away from these LLMs. This isn’t a dunk. It’s bad to get collectively caught up in the feeling that maybe humanity isn’t real because the computer indexed your files
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 03/09/2026
There's a pernicious pattern here with "A.i." companies claiming individual rights for industrialized extraction. Claiming an artist's fair use and a photographer's right to record people in public to justify corporations ingesting literally everything in the world for "A.i." databases? 🤮
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Gizmodo @gizmodo.com · 03/09/2026
Identity Verification Is Broken. The 153 Million Driver’s Licenses Now for Sale Are Proof gizmodo.com/identity-verification-i…
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Identity Verification Is Broken. The 153 Million Driver’s Licenses Now for Sale Are Proof
A massive trove of driver’s license scans allegedly stolen from an identity verification company shows the danger of creating honey pots of our most sensitive documents for malicious actors to exploit.
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
People need to find ways to support the Smithsonian. To signal to the country that Trump needs to keep his sticky, grabby, racist paws off all the institutions that mind our cultural and historical heritage. Tell your Congressional Reps and Senators: Hands off the Smithsonian!
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Fawnduu🐮🔜 Big Chillin @fawnduu.com · 01/09/2026
The USDA is trying to recind the Roadless Rule which currently protects 45 million acres of National Forests from logging and deforestation. We have until September 20th to comment and tell the USDA we don't want this! File your comment w/ link below: action.outdooralliance.org/a/roadless-d...
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Ohio Todd @lettucewrangler.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Sometimes i think about how, in the late 90s, USPS was moving to set up a secure email address for every US resident and how congress prevented it.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I really feel like it should be bigger news that fibreglass is in IV saline bags in the US. This isn’t a situation where you might get a little sick. Fibreglass going directly into your veins will kill you. IV saline is used for almost every medical procedure. This is unconscionable:
fda.gov
Baxter Issues Voluntary Nationwide Recall for Two Lots of 0.9% Sodium Chloride Injection Due to Potential Presence of Particulate Matter
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – AUG. 25, 2026 – DEERFIELD, Ill., Baxter International Inc. (NYSE:BAX) is voluntarily recalling two lots of 0.9% Sodium Chloride Injection due to the potential presence of parti...
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arnaerr 🦭⭑。 @arnaerr.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Please share your feedback on how genAI destroys the livelihoods of artists on the official EU website. You can do so even if you're not an EU citizen. We have to be loud so the change will come, and practice shoes that voicing hatred towards genAI works ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet...
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 22/08/2026
Everyone involved in this evil system has to go. Fire them all. Deny them federal employment ever again. Publish their names in databases the way sex offenders' names are published.
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Pete Woods @thatpetewoods.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I think it’s important to remember that while the insane amount of food recalls can be blamed on Trump & DOGE gutting oversight & enforcement, it’s the corporations who are taking advantage of the situation to sell us poison to line their pockets. They’re proving they HAVE to be controlled.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 22/08/2026
Boycott OpenAI.
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Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
"This contradicts claims by some rightwing commentators, who have blamed rewilding for causing wildfires."
theguardian.com
Rewilded land remains green amid drought-stricken English countryside, images show
National Trust’s Holnicote estate says restored wetlands and rivers offer proof of resilience to drought, wildfires and flooding
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Seth Redd Commissions open! [ALSO WISHLIST/BUY OUR GAMES!] @saredd99.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
its ironic it's so difficult to share vertical comics on social media compared to page based. Especially since its supposed to be the "mobile native" structure
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Fantagraphics @fantagraphics.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
SCAM ALERT: Do not order from www.fantagraphics-us.com, it is not a legitimate website! They have cloned our real website and are stealing people’s credit card information. If you want to order directly from us, please do so at www.fantagraphics.com.
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alternet.org @alternet.org · 17/08/2026
Bipartisan outrage erupts as private bulldozers begin tearing through Big Bend National Park under a redundant $1.7 billion border wall contract.
alternet.org
Trump is trashing a national treasure for donors —and Texans can't stop it
Bipartisan outrage erupts as private bulldozers begin tearing through Big Bend National Park under a redundant $1.7 billion border wall contract.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Wow. Proponents of the ICE taser gloves are openly saying that one reason they love the gloves is that they doesn’t leave any marks or proof that they were used, making it harder for people to sue when they’re shocked excessively.
Mother Jones

"In today's society, you know, everybody's filming everything, everybody has a cell phone," Glueck said. If an officer punches someone on camera, that can go viral in an instant; even a standard taser leaves puncture wounds. But "the glove is low optic, and it looks better on camera, and it looks better to those witnesses. With a glove, there are no burn marks or scars."But local police across the country are still eagerly buying the gloves—in large part so that they can harm people and avoid being sued for it. It's been successful "from the patrolmen to the jailers," Lumpkin County Sheriff Stacy Jarrard said in a Compliant Technologies promotional video. "It's been a great tool as far as mitigating liability," according to Nelson County Jailer Justin Hall.
Bob Couey of the Floyd County Sheriff's Department sung the GLOVE's praises, too: "I highly recommend these gloves to anybody that's looking for a utility they can use that is conducive to not leading to lawsuits."
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 15/08/2026
Any money you give cops or ICE for things like “deescalation training” will just be used to fund more violence. We have known this for YEARS.
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Ohio Capital Journal @ohiocapitaljournal.com · 14/08/2026
Haitians living in Springfield, Ohio are being required to wear ankle monitors and turn their passports over to United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/08/14/h...
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Haitians in Springfield are required to report to Ohio's ICE offices and wear ankle monitors • Ohio Capital Journal
Haitians living in Springfield, Ohio are being required to wear ankle monitors and turn their passports over to United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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