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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 5h

What the FUCK @pbs.org ... you used generative AI for archaeological reconstructions of Great Zimbabwe? Fuck you. How DARE you. You couldn't be bothered to pay actors? Animators? (Africa's Golden City, showing now- they did a "We used generative AI" disclaimer prior to the show starting)

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 6h

torn between shock and disgust and amusement imagining the DoD getting orders to execute the same-day invasion of a major ally

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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 5h

Think about how little your representatives have said or done to defend their colleague Ilhan Omar. Now try to imagine how little they will do when it's our turn.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 5h

"We have guns too" isn't a bad campaign slogan to run against MAGA, gotta be honest

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 10h

Aaron Swartz, coding prodigy and hacktivist who helped develop RSS and was a co-founder of Reddit, died by suicide after facing $1 million in fines and 35 years in prison for felony charges, just for downloading pdfs of research papers with the intention of making them accessible to the public.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 6h

Ladies and gentlemen, it’s time for another game of…

Man standing in front of big neon sign that says “is that good?” As the crowd chants the same. Art by Mattie lubchansky

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Ukrainian presidential advisor Serhiy Beskrestnov confirms Elon Musk's Space X crippled Ukrainian capabilities last night. In other words, the US deliberately sabotaged European defence operations mid-mission. Every country in the world should move away from buying American hardware ASAP.

"I can confirm that tonight SpaceX has implemented a speed limit on Starlink terminals while in motion.

The limit currently applies to the StarShield “military package” and is set at 100 mph.

Our defense forces were not given notice of this limit, and this has resulted in the disruption of a number of missions.

It is clear that this action cannot be a coincidence and is related to the current political situation."

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 20h

One metal magazine of the 90s actually coined the phrase "Hetfield Effect" to describe the tendency of rockers to switch from "anti-war / anti-establishment" to "patriotic / conservative" pretty much the second they passed draft age

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19h

My man looks like Stanley Kubrick dressed up as Velma for Halloween

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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 19h

Still trying to understand how Napster got shut down, but Anthropic is going public and still hasn’t paid us authors yet after stealing our work.

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Alyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 15h

JIM CRAMER? JIM CRAMER figured it out??

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Morgan Johnson @poormojo.bsky.social · 16h

No joke. I think this is the most important video I have ever seen about mobile games. This guy breaks down how this game psychologically profiles you, and makes the game harder or easier in order to show you ads

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m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 15h

many centrists are as disdainful of science as MAGA these days. virtually every study on the topic, and there have been many, show that youth programs reduce crime. it's a settled question. this is no different from claiming vaccines are a hoax.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Read every word of this and share it.

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

This can happen here. This WILL happen here.

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Y’all, I hate to rain on the dead bot parade, but the Yandex data center destruction doesn’t seem to have significantly impacted social media bots. I made temporal graphs of X posts about AfD around the time of the attack and there’s no sign of a sudden dip or residual impact on that conversation.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

It does appear the "data center eliminated Nazi and otherwise fuckface bots" narrative is basically wishcasting, it does show you how popular getting rid of this shit would broadly be, and that maybe a smart person should run on it.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I would love, absolutely love, at least one prominent contender for the Dem POTUS nomination in 2028 to start threatening this now. "Trump is right that lying on immigration forms is a serious offense. Here are the people my DOJ will investigate on Day 1: Musk, Melania, etc." Put fear in them NOW.

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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 13/10/2026

More damaging revelations about Ken Paxton: A previously unreported New Year’s Eve 2024 celebration where Paxton partied in Dubai with two fugitives from U.S. justice and a woman who wasn’t his wife on.wsj.com/4yKLe4d

on.wsj.com

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Greenb3ar @greenb3ar.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Okay the best political ad of the year is here from LA-DSA

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 13/10/2026

And with that we have our first dead AI startup

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Chicken WingDings 🇵🇸 @ebridget.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Ms Rachel from the top ropes

From Ms Rachel's account on Threads, she writes, "CORECIVIC, a company that makes hundreds of millions locking up KIDS in immigration detention
has a PAC that's sending campaign checks to Senator Susan Collins of Maine.
Susan Collins chairs the Senate committee that writes ICE's budget.
ICE is CoreCivic's customer.
The company gets paid out of a budget she controls, and it pays into her campaign."

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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

oh man 😂

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Daniel Radosh @radosh.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

My kid has started a Letterboxd list called Killer Sweaters for films where the killer wears a great sweater and they've asked me to throw it out to Bluesky for more because "that's the kind of thing those weirdos like to do"

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

For the love of God, stop saying this regime's ruthless authoritarianism "raises questions" and start telling us what answers you have for us. If you can't do that, get the fuck out of the way.

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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.

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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Greetings on Columbus Day from Columbus, Ohio, where six years ago they removed the big Christopher Columbus statue and absolutely no one in this city gives a shit that it's gone or ever really thinks about it. It's a good reminder that people who care about Columbus are losers who don't matter.

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Shady Inference 🌫️ @blot.city · 12/10/2026

If you're a black person accused of academic fraud, the british press and political elite will harass you until you kill yourself. If you're a racism denialist accused of sexual crimes against children, the british press and political elite will *immediately* deploy the wall of silence.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

NYT is explicitly using 2FA as a punishment to try to upsell existing subscribers.

NYT:
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Not now, I'll verify again later

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David C Bell @moviehooligan.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

If you’re wondering what the vibe is going into the midterms the New England fall fair I went to today had a crochet guillotine for sale.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

no coming back from this without punishing the entire chain of command from the officers carrying out this shit to the people at the top giving the orders

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

This is exactly what ICE said: "Parra-Hernandez ran in front of an ICE vehicle and was struck." Now watch the video. They're no other word for it: They're lying.

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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

these companies need to be strangled to death with the full force of the regulatory state at the soonest opportunity

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 11/10/2026

Cancelling a subscription shouldn't be this hard. If you can sign up with a click, you must be able to cancel with one. Head to nyc.gov/click-to-cancel to file a complaint against any business that makes it hard to cancel a subscription.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

all those people who called me "irresponsible" for advocating air strikes against specific data centers better be eating crow.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/10/2026

question for brooks: what if they are, literally, nazis?

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026

Your favorite Anthropic so-called "whistleblower" said that the rationalists have "specialized minds" that allow them to see that the end is about to be brought on to us by a magical machine god. Parroting the cult leader (of the rationalists, the R in TESCREAL) who says the same about himself.

His autobiography even opens with a parable: as a small child he threw his favorite squirtgun off a third-floor balcony rather than accept that his mother could lend out what was his, and felt complete when he heard it hit the pavement. He goes on to describes himself as a specialist in the technological transformation of the human species, one of the few people alive with the standing to steer it. He identifies with Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the one person who sees the danger clearly and has to act while everyone else gets on with ordinary life.

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

(waggling my eyebrows sexily at Washington State and California)

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Jooooohhhh No! @josefoshea.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

What a weird world we live in - Ukraine hits a data centre deep in Russia - Irish twitter users see racist posts about IPAS centres in Offaly fall off a cliff

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 11/10/2026

Small island kingdom's state-owned propaganda arm censors woman's pro civil rights message

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Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 15/09/2026

The problem is that "while you weren't looking the tech industry was comprehensively taken over by a cult based around a piece of Harry Potter fanfic" is self-evidently an absolutely ridiculous claim that can't possibly have happened, which is a real problem given that it 100% did happen.

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

some middle rat history, w/clarifications: 1) I should have titled my previous "AI Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult In Berkeley, California" so people would stop arguing with me about people who aren't in Berkeley, California. 2) The sex cult part of this is both predatory and integral to what they do.

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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It would really be great if folks not affiliated with the Trump Administration could stop using "Department of War." The Department of Defense is a statutory creation, and the name is statutorily given--the administration cannot unilaterally change it.

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Status reports that ABC News deleted that explosive story about the Trump kids getting billions in federal contracts for their companies. ABC hasn't explained why they nuked the story, even as Trump has crowed about its deletion, sparking a firestorm behind scenes. www.status.news/p/david-elli...

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C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Ossoff and El-Sayed took different tacks tonight vs their opponents—El-Sayed was more of a subtext of “you dumb fucking racist jackass” while Ossoff’s was more “if you fell down at a gas station I’d toss a lit match on you”—and I don’t think either of those is a bad choice tbh

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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Ossoff is definitely not listening to Yglesias/Klein/PodSave reactionary centrist crowd, he does not think his marginal voter is a white-supremacist, and that is what makes him such an attractive candidate to the vast majority of US who are not white-supremacists.

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Eric Levai @ericlevai.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Now THIS is how you write a story. Devastating.

Screenshot from this article: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/us/politics/fort-hood-execution-streamed-public.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HVE.Rw7O.Sj-0_s5YONzL&smid=nytcore-android-share

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