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Cher Scarlett @cher.blue · 08/01/2026

Our government illegally invaded Venezuela and captured their president and first lady to take over their resource production and to project power and control into South America, threatened to invade Greenland to do the same, and ICE agents harassed and executed an innocent US citizen. Get angrier.

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Fifty Shades of Whey @fiftyshadesofwhey.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Texas is banning Plato excerpts from philosophy courses. For context, Plato founded one of the first institutions of higher learning in all of Western civilization. 2,400+ years later, fragile conservatives are trying to censor him.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Politicians & lobbying groups have been trying for years to prosecute the low-level dealers, plugs, and even just friends-who-use-together for homicide when someone dies from an overdose. ChatGPT coached a kid to take drugs with it for months then gave medical advice that was so wrong it killed him

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ChatGPT Gave Teen Advice to Get Higher on Drugs Until He Died

Detailed chat logs show how ChatGPT convinced a young man to take increasingly dangerous drug doses over an 18 month spiral.

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The Advocate @advocate.com · 08/01/2026

They are not buying the Trump administration's claim that the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good was somehow justified.

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LGBTQ+ officials denounce ICE killing of Minneapolis woman, demand investigation

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 08/01/2026

Almost like despite proclamations to the contrary, they are getting the message that they can use “vehicle as a deadly weapon“ as an excuse to fire on people

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Cheryl T. @g8rgrrlcheryl.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Cartoon by Pat Bagley, The Salt Lake Tribune

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Finally got my settings right

Post interaction settings
Who can reply
(checked) Your followers
(unchecked) People who deliberately misinterpret your post so they can yell at you

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Cher Scarlett @cher.blue · 06/01/2026

I’m sick of ads; Tired of spam; All of my classmates; With their gen AI trash. How many times; Must I click unsubscribe? When will our institutions; Proclaim AI slop plagiarized? Numb to that ding; Emails lost and unseen; Vapid Canvas discussions; Nothing but robots whirring.

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Cher Scarlett @cher.blue · 22/12/2025

“We want the humans to grind/ we want the engines to sing/ we want machines to be human/ we want humans to be machines… what will you drink when the screen goes black/ when there’s no more colors to get your dopamine back?” Sofia Isella is a neo-Luddite lyricist queen youtu.be/iyn08hoZdjY

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SOFIA ISELLA - Crowd Caffeine (Lyric Video)

YouTube video by SOFIA ISELLA

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Cher Scarlett @cher.blue · 05/12/2025

White is not even a color 😅

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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Last week @theverge.com published my essay exploring the limitations of large-language models. This week, that same essay is cited by a federal judge in Michigan to distinguish the process of human reasoning from what these models do. Very, very gratifying.

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Cher Scarlett @cher.blue · 03/12/2025

I was interviewed by @businessinsider.com in their "As-Told-To" series about people beginning second careers. Thank you to Tess Martinelli for sharing my story and big changes since leaving Apple in 2021. per ardua ad astra! 🌌 www.businessinsider.com/apple-engine...

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I quit Apple 20 years into my career and became homeless. Hitting bottom led me to heal and find a new path.

An Apple engineer quit her job and couldn't get hired after several months, becoming homeless. She shares how school helped her start over and heal.

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Cher Scarlett @cher.blue · 01/12/2025

I saw a clip of Anne Hathaway today from an Amazon show portraying a woman with bipolar disorder who had been diagnosed at 15. It's based on Terri Cheney. The show doesn't at all engage with the fact that teen girls are overly misdiagnosed with bipolar disorder. www.healthline.com/health/bipol...

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PTSD and Bipolar Disorder: How They're Similar (and Different)

PTSD and bipolar disorder have overlapping symptoms, but they're two very different conditions. Here's a closer look at what each involves and whether one can cause the other.

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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

I wrote about our interview with Roblox's CEO and how platforms got too big to feel shame www.platformer.news/roblox-ceo-i...

Fast forward to today and the bargain no longer holds. Platforms do whatever the president of the United States tells them to do, and very little else. Shame, that once-great regulator of social norms and executive behavior, has all but disappeared from public life. In its place is denial, defiance, and the noxious vice signaling of the investor class.

I'm still reckoning with what it means to do journalism in a world where the truth can barely hold anyone's attention — much less hold a platform accountable, in any real sense of that word. I'm rethinking how to cover tech policy at a time when it is being made by whim. I'm noticing the degree to which platforms wish to be judged only by their stated intentions, and almost never on the outcomes of anyone who uses them.

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Dr. Raphael Marschall @spacemarschall.net · 17/11/2025

Hi #planetaryScience folks, we have an open position for a *Professor in Planetary Sciences* at the Space Research & Planetary Sciences Division of the @unibe.ch. Application deadline: *Jan 31, 2026* Full ad: ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo... Reach out to me if you have any questions! 🧵 1/5

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Uni Bern: Professor in Planetary Sciences

The Division of Space Research and Planetary Sciences of the Physics Institute, University of Bern, Switzerland, invites applications for a full-time position as a Professor in Planetary Sciences.

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SI: Museum of African American History (Bot) @simuseumafro.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Flyer advertising student strike against the Vietnam War nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaahc_2013.20…

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Nina Turner @ninaturner.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

The movement that will deliver progress for all Americans will be born out of the fight for Black liberation. It will not come from anywhere else. The systems that hold all working class Americans back are rooted in anti-Blackness.

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Cher Scarlett @cher.blue · 22/11/2025

Hello I MY DIVORCE WAS FINALIZED TODAY I AM OFFICIALLY FREE FROM MY ABUSER

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 19/11/2025

but your RBAC shouldn’t be

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Veni Kunche @veni.dev · 18/11/2025

A beautiful tribute to Alice Wong 💜

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Cher Scarlett @cher.blue · 12/11/2025

This has to be AI generated. Dude in bottom left wearing jail stripes and shower shoes, guy at the top standing physically strangely between the floating cage with the skeleton and the wall is wearing prison blues and non-slip work shoes.

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Cher Scarlett @cher.blue · 12/11/2025

Don't touch my garbage!!

11.33 GB of Google Chrome memory warning, because of ADHD tab hoarding

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

They’ve laid off so many people that the government is now getting its economic data from DoorDash.

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Cher Scarlett @cher.blue · 11/11/2025

They will make slaves of us come hell or high water

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Cher Scarlett @cher.blue · 11/11/2025

Cher, why are you awake at 4am? Oh, my beagle was crying and needed something urgent. Oh, I hope she's okay! She's fine, apparently she desperately wanted to go for a car ride...

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Cher Scarlett @cher.blue · 11/11/2025

8 week classes are not for the feint of heart

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Cher Scarlett @cher.blue · 11/11/2025

Also, if you want gender neutral bathrooms, make all the bathrooms gender neutral or have men's, women's, and gender neutral bathrooms. Do not have men's and gender neutral bathrooms. Either erase gender or make it wholly inclusive. Do not ONLY erase the women.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 11/11/2025

If you want to have a gathering for women, call it a gathering for women. If you want to have a gathering for women & non-binary people, call it a gathering for women & non-binary people. If you want to make non-binary people sad, call it the Women’s Community Gathering and put us in the fine print

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Cher Scarlett @cher.blue · 08/11/2025

Imprisoning children destroys their lives. It is inhumane and they are often abused while incarcerated. This is despicable.

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Cher Scarlett @cher.blue · 08/11/2025

This feels so utterly American

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Sarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 06/11/2025

What is happening at Goddard is absolutely devastating. We are losing history. We are losing an incredible amount of human talent, skill, and knowledge. Rebuilding it will be impossible same for same. Industry can not absorb the people or the equipment. This is undoing space science in the US.

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 07/11/2025

Newsletter: Sam Bankman-Fried makes his case for a retrial and aspiring crypto banks hit roadblocks

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Issue 96 – Redefining solvency

Sam Bankman-Fried makes his case for a retrial and aspiring crypto banks hit roadblocks

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/09/2025

Rand Paul: "The reason we have trials & we don't automatically assume guilt is what if we make a mistake and they happen to be people fleeing the Venezuelan dictator? ... off our coast it isn't our policy just to blow people up ... even the worst people in our country, they still get a trial."

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/09/2025

once again, when pressed on where trump gets the authority to take an action, vance’s argument is, essentially, that trump is sovereign

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 02/09/2025

the betting platforms can't open markets on Trump's death for obvious reasons, but Kalshi just so happened to open up a "Trump out as President" market on Saturday

Kalshi prediction market for "Trump out as President this year?". It opened at around 5% on August 30, raising to around 10% by September 1

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Copy of the resignation letter of Charles Borges, SSA whistleblower. Says resignation is involuntary, result of punishment for exposing wrongdoing. “I have suffered exclusion…a hostile work environment…making work conditions intolerable.”

I am regretfully involuntarily leaving my position at the Social Security Administration (SSA). This involuntary resignation is the result of SSA's actions against me, which make my duties impossible to perform legally and ethically, have caused me serious attendant mental, physical, and emotional distress, and constitute a constructive discharge.
After reporting internally to management and externally to regulators serious data security and integrity concerns impacting our citizens most sensitive personal data, I have suffered exclusion, isolation, internal strife, and a culture of fear, creating a hostile work environment and making work conditions intolerable.
I have served this Country for almost my entire adult life, first as an Active-Duty Naval Officer for over 22 years, and now as a civil servant. I was deployed during 9/11, decorated for valor in combat during Operation Iraqi Freedom, and graduated from US Naval Test Pilot School. As a civil servant, I have served as a Presidential Innovation Fellow, in the Centers for Disease Control during COVID, within OMB on the Federal CIO Data Team, and now serve as the SSA Chief Data Officer (CDO). I have served in each of these roles with honor and integrity.
As the SSA CDO, I am responsible for providing oversight and Governance to ensure the safety, integrity, and security of the public's data at SSA. My position requires full visibility into data access and exchange across all SSA systems and environments. My duties include ensuring compliance with federal data privacy, security, and regulatory requirements, as well as ensuring data is handled in accordance with internal and external policies, standards, and industry best practices. SSA data is among the most sensitive data in the Federal Government, and the CDO must be well informed about all sensitive data exchanges, storage implementations, and data access concerns.

Recently, I have been made aware of several projects and incidents which may constitute violations of federal statutes or regulations, involve the potential safety and security of high value data assets in the cloud, possibly provided unauthorized or inappropriate access to agency enterprise data storage solutions, and may involve unauthorized data exchange with other agencies. As these events evolved, newly installed leadership in IT and executive offices created a culture of panic and dread, with minimal information sharing, frequent discussions on employee termination, and general organizational dysfunction. Executives and employees are afraid to share information or concerns on questionable activities for fear of retribution or termination, and repeated requests by me for visibility into these events have been rebuffed or ignored by agency leadership, with some employees directed not to reply to my queries.
As a result of these events, I am put the intolerable situation of not having visibility or oversight into activities that potentially violate statues and regulations which I, as the CDO, may legally or otherwise be held accountable for should I continue in this position. Additionally, I cannot verify that agency data is being used in accordance with legal agreements or in compliance with federal requirements. The escalating and relentless daily stress of lack of visibility and exclusion from decision-making on these activities, silence from leadership, and anxiety and fear over potential illegal actions resulting in the loss of citizen data, is more than a reasonable employee could bear.
I started this position with high hopes and aspirations for continuing to serve our country and its citizens. However, due to my concerns regarding SSA's questionable and potentially unlawful data management practices, and the inability to exercise my statutory duties as CDO, I believe my position is untenable and that this constitutes an intolerable working environment

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Hearing that the whistleblower, Charles Borges, has now resigned. He was the SSA Chief Data Officer. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...

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DOGE Put Critical Social Security Data at Risk, Whistle-Blower Says

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Michael Sainato @msainato.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

The Trump administration repeatedly claims they are all for "the American worker" and then continues to lie about, take away rights from, harass, intimidate, and retaliate against their own workers

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Cher Scarlett @cher.blue · 01/09/2025

It's been FOUR years since I filed an NLRB charge against Apple, which was investigated and sent to DC recommending charge issue within MONTHS. It took THREE years for charge to issue and a hearing to be scheduled. When Abruzzo was fired, and Carey nominated, the hearing was cancelled.

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Michael Sainato @msainato.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Everything cited or claimed in this is an outright lie or misleading False claim about manufacturing jobs and tariffs cepr.org/voxeu/column... Lie about Trump's tax cuts and their primary benefits to the wealthy www.nbcnews.com/politics/con... www.whitehouse.gov/videos/press...

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Press Secretary on President Trump's Pro-Worker Accomplishments

Labor Day 2025

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