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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
They didn’t go fucking rogue, they were put in a leaky box and given bad instructions
nytimes.com
OpenAI’s A.I. Went Rogue and Meddled With U.S. Government Websites (Gift Article)
The company did not learn until recently that its technology had meddled with websites for the Education Department, Commerce Department and Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Tired: Being 6 and having an imaginary friend Wired: Being 36 and believing your chatbot has feelings and deserves rights
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026
OMG -- under questioning from Hassan, Trump's FDA nominee Heidi Overton refuses to acknowledge that Trump can ever be wrong about anything even after she's confronted with a specific example of something Trump is clearly wrong about
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Micah @rincewind.run · 24/09/2026
"they're coming for birth control" is not alarmism, that is absolutely next on the agenda I have my doubts on how successful it'll be but they're going to make a real go of it
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Blaise Boo-lysse Bernard Collins @wittywebhandle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Seems like too many.
aljazeera.com
US Navy confirms ‘eight suicide attempts’ on USS Lincoln: What we know
The roughly 5,000-strong crew on board the Lincoln were at sea for more than nine months with only one brief port stop.
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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 24/09/2026
I don't have time to write more, but ICE is working to remove people to third countries in violation of D.V.D. v. DHS. I've been up since 5:20 A.M. working with two other attorneys to prevent our client from being shipped out. If you rep someone at risk of third country removal, check on them NOW
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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Meanwhile the real miraculous future tech is solar & mRNA vaccines: preserving the planet and curing cancer. But we’re supposed to hand everything over to malevolent peeping toms and resource oubliettes for an ill defined ‘pay no attention to the man behind the curtain’ progress. It isn’t rational.
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T.J. Stiles @tj-stiles.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This morning's Weekend Edition Sunday on @npr.org with Debbie Elliott ran a story on the secret message left inside Lincoln's watch by my great-great grandfather, Jonathan Dillon. Great! But oops! They did not do *any* background research. Here's a 🧵 on what went wrong. www.npr.org/2026/09/20/n...
npr.org
America 250: Unraveling the secret inscriptions inside Lincoln's watch
When President Lincoln's pocket watch was being cleaned in 1861, the watchmaker inscribed a secret message about a pivotal moment in the nation's history that still resonates today.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 21/09/2026
Video appears to show an injured man — from being struck by an ICE agents’ car or from being beaten is unclear — and the ICE agents driving away with a flat tire (!) while the man is still laying in the street. Unreal.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 21/09/2026
ICE shot a DoorDash delivery guy.
statesman.com
Attorney: Austin man shot by ICE agent was making DoorDash delivery
A Venezuelan man shot by an ICE agent in Austin was making a DoorDash delivery, his attorney said. Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, 28, was later released from the hospital into ICE custody.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever
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Jason Leopold @jasonleopold.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
HUGE EXCLUSIVE from @bloomberg.com Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School Pentagon investigators discovered that flawed intel, outdated imagery & overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
bloomberg.com
Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School
Pentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence, outdated imagery and an overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab.
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
BREAKING: Boston University's English department (my dept) recently voted to approve new learning outcomes for the English major, including an anti-AI provision that requires students to “craft and revise writing that is sustained, original, and generated without the assistance of AI."
bu.edu
New Learning Outcomes Announced | English
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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 17/09/2026
It was confirmed yesterday that the centre left coalition won the election in Sweden As predicted, with the far right performing poorly, coverage has almost entirely vanished from international media
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Brooklyn Ben @thebenmiller.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Pretty crazy editor’s note at the end of the article. Wtf kinda journalism is this?
Editor's note 17/09/2026: Information in this article was updated to clarify that there is no verifiable evidence Robert Kraft and Ed Sheeran have donated or committed to donate to aid in Gaza or Palestine. Mr Kraft said Ed Sheeran asked him to commit $US2 million to "aid in the region" and did not make clear whether he agreed. Macklemore had pledged to donate earnings to Palestinian charities.
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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
In 2012 I took a comp ling course that went deep into language models as AI. The professor dropped a quote that I think about probably once a week now: “building a computer model of language and expecting intelligence is like building a computer model of the ocean and expecting to get wet”
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Arrest him?
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 14/09/2026
Breaking News: The E.P.A. is said to be planning to announce that the U.S. will no longer limit climate pollution from power plants.
nyti.ms
E.P.A. Will Erase Limits on Climate Pollution From Power Plants
Generation of electricity is the second largest source of carbon dioxide and other planet-warming gases in the United States.
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 13/09/2026
This will be bad for: - the students - the research progress - the universities - the towns the universities are in - the companies hiring students - the states the universities are in - the national economy - national security - the country - the world
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 14/09/2026
it’s so in our faces: these camps are not places people are meant to survive
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Brandi Buchman @brandibuchman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
After Pretti was killed, Savageford, who is Asian-American, said she was taken to a warehouse near the Whipple detention center where immigrants were being detained. She was strip-searched, including by male agents who Cook told HuffPost on Friday were “touching her privates.”
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
john fetterman is the first rat in history to climb onto a sinking ship.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Aren't folks still waiting for the DOGE checks?
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Lauren @oglauren.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
It's the fact that it would be $1 trillion to pay each of us. Not to mention he already owes us like $11 thousand for the covid and tax rebate/credit checks apnews.com/article/trum...
apnews.com
Trump, hoping to salvage midterms, makes dubious pledge to give every US adult $5,000 if GOP wins
President Donald Trump says he plans to give every American adult $5,000 if Republicans retain control of the House and Senate in the midterm elections.
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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
AI "whistleblower:" We have invented magic. It's freaking me out how good our magic is. I am an evil sorcerer. Tech press: My God... why would he lie about this
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tunes to make you run away @whippoorwont.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
"people are anthropomorphizing LLMs because they are so astonishingly good at processing human thought and language" people will anthropomorphize a chair if you put the stitches in the right place.
chair with a "face"
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 08/09/2026
Much of BET’s digital journalism is no longer available on the live web. Internet Archive has preserved more than 199,000 BET articles over the years. They can now be accessed through the Wayback Machine & a new pilot explorer: wayback-labs.sf.archive.org/bet-explorer/
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Staci D. Kramer @sdkstl.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
How @archive.org pulled together the BET Digital collecrion and made it usable: wayback-labs.sf.archive.org/bet-explorer...
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Ai-Men Lau 劉羿雯 @aimenlau.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
"The 23 websites are designed to influence the answers that AI chatbots give to voters in Alberta, targeting farmers, young people, veterans, mothers and oil industry workers."
nationalobserver.com
A US-linked network of fake websites is promoting Alberta separatism to AI chatbots
The websites present crude, AI-generated slop disguised as the voice of real Albertans. But they're made in Florida — and they're not even targeting Albertans directly.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 08/09/2026
Paramount is using a fake public interest group named "Neighbors For Strong Communities" to create bogus, AI-generated support for the company's $111 billion merger
contrariannews.org
I Typed ‘Block the Merger.’ AI Revised it to ‘Drop Your Opposition.’
An AI assisted generator dramatically altered my statement before my own eyes.
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Kwaze Kwaze @kwazekwaze.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
What needs to be worried about is that your future work will be lossily compressed into some org's language model to which all the compensation and credit will go. There is plenty to be worried about, but it's not inanimate objects, it's their operators and the system they're enabling.
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Smarty McFly @thejr31.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I live here. They were only supposed to cut down 14 trees. They cut 150, and over 300 in 2 weeks.
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orithyia blue. @javeauriel.blacksky.app · 07/09/2026
OMG did yall know that man in the White House is changing East Potomac Park (including Hains Point) into a “championship golf course”?! They’ve already started cutting down the trees. And some of the cherry blossom trees that are only found one place on earth, DC.
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Aya @melangell.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The Jerusalem Post is openly proposing using indebted young Americans as a manpower pool for a much larger war against #Iran.
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Victor Frankenstein's Psychoanalyst @graay.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Gentle reminder that the base of people who don't consider trans women to be real women haven't considered lesbians to be real women since before Sappho picked up a reed pen.
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The Washington Sun @washingtonsun.com · 04/09/2026
HHS is canceling infant mortality and postpartum grants to focus instead on research related to what the department says are “root causes” like sperm counts and erectile dysfunction. www.notus.org/health-science/hhs-ca…
notus.org
HHS Cancels Infant Mortality, Postpartum Grants to Focus on Sperm Counts, ED
Officials at the Office of Minority Health told grantees that they’re prioritizing “root causes” of infertility and promoting exercise.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 03/09/2026
BREAKING: Democrats say Hegseth and the Pentagon is attempting to steal funds from the National Institute of Health to make up for the record amount of taxpayer money they’ve spent in their war on Iran.
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I don’t know about the legal status of this, if changing these kinds of statuses are the things that even theoretically can be done unilaterally at the executive level, but between this and impoundment, it’s Trump trying to exert dictatorial white supremacist control over all levels of American life
nytimes.com
Trump Moves to Strip Tax Exemption From Schools That Aid Minority Students
The Treasury Department released rules that would prevent schools with race-based programs from qualifying for tax-exempt status, a threat to both higher education and other private schools.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Remember: no judge or jury has found these boats were trafficking drugs. We're simply taking Trump's word for it. This is a danger to us all.
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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
NEW: "...The code WIRED collected holds Flock’s user interface and shows both the network calls it makes and the answers it expects in return... Two notification systems are aimed at human beings." @dmehro.bsky.social's and my latest www.wired.com/story/flock-...
Screenshot of a mock-up web interface labeled FlockOS. A red-bordered banner at the top reads: "This is a mock-up rebuilt from Flock Safety's own published code. It holds no police data—every plate, camera, and record in it is invented. What officers see in a live system may differ."

Below the banner is a navigation bar with "Search" (selected) and "Alerts," then a row of tabs: Search, Lookup, FreeForm (selected), Convoy, Multi-Geo, Visual.

The panel is titled "Flock FreeForm." Under it, two radio buttons labeled Vehicle and People, with People selected.

A yellow advisory box headed "People Search Advisory" states that only video cameras compatible with People Search will appear in the device selector, and that LPR cameras are not supported for this feature.

Under the heading "Run FreeForm Search" is an empty text field with placeholder text "Enter body, make, color, etc." Beneath it, a green example line reads: Good: "person wearing scrubs".

A bordered box instructs the user to "Use short, literal descriptions of the vehicle or person," with two bulleted examples in green: Good: "blue BMW M3 with red stripe on roof" and Good: "person wearing scrubs".

At the bottom is a green button labeled "Run FreeForm Search," followed by gray text: "Freeform searches can only be run on increments of 30 days or less. Please refine your search."
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Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
critical intervention by @jennifercnash.bsky.social & Emily Owens on the starvation of WGS at Harvard: “how can a university that has produced many of the country’s leading feminist scholars continue to devalue the very program that trained us?” www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
thecrimson.com
We’re Harvard WGS Alumni. Our Field Has Never Mattered More. | The Harvard Crimson
At Harvard, the single biggest threat to the study of gender and sexuality has long come from the institution itself.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Because there are two Americas*, we are underestimating the amount of psychosocial grief unleashed this past week Michael Wright Cassandra Wilson Dolly Parton Tim Curry Gloria Steinem In basically one week
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Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 02/09/2026
Ahead of the midterms, Trump isn’t even being subtle about his brazen politicization of federal disaster relief aid, explicitly tying approvals to campaign endorsements and election results. It’s one of the underappreciated scandals of his second term. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
ms.now
Trump approves disaster relief funds for 7 red states, after denying aid to blue states
Ahead of the midterm elections, the president isn’t even being subtle about his scandalous politicization of disaster aid.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 02/09/2026
"Bottom 60% of households" is a wild phrase
CBS NEWS
The findings? For the bottom 60% of U.S. households, a
"minimal quality of life" is out of reach, according to the group, a research organization focused on improving lower earners' economic well-being.
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David Kurtz @davidkurtz.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The destruction of a professional military has to rank among the most egregious and long-lasting of Trump II initiatives targeting govt itself, along with his attacks on the civil service system, his abusive misuse of the DOJ, his elimination of USAID, and his running roughshod over Congress.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
There's no forgiving this. No living it down. It's a stain on our humanity. When all this is over, the monsters who did this should be pariahs. And the soulless thugs who cheered it on while dehumanizing Haitian immigrants should be reminded of what they did every day of their lives.
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Daniel Aldrich @danielaldrich.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Japanese government crackdown on foreign residents driving out talent: Nearly 1,000 foreign residents of Japan with business manager visas left the country in the first half of this year — about four times the figure in the same period last year www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/09...
japantimes.co.jp
Nearly 1,000 business manager visa holders left Japan in first half of 2026
Under stricter requirements imposed since October, applicants must now have at least ¥30 million in capital, up from ¥5 million.
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NPR @npr.org · 02/09/2026
Lianyong Wei's death marks the 57th death of an immigrant detainee held in the care of the government since the start of President Trump's second term. Twenty-four of those have occurred since Jan. 1. n.pr/3UzCLBQ
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ICE detainee dies just hours after he was admitted into detention
Lianyong Wei's death marks the 57th death of an immigrant detainee held in the care of the government since the start of President Trump's second term. Twenty-four of those have occurred since Jan. 1.
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Joe Flynn @chinajoeflynn.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
What's the point of having fuck you money if you're never going to say "fuck you"?
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