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Fox News is pro-Putin propaganda. Absolutely shameless.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 8h

The "leaders" of Silicon Valley appear to be fascists or fascist-adjacent. Why exactly is the public being badgered to "trust" these people re AI? It makes NO SENSE.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15h

Yeesh. 👀 (Bloomberg) - The most likely long-term outcome of the AI boom will be massive capital destruction in the US, with market share going to cheaper open-source Chinese models, according to Jefferies Financial Group Inc. @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 7h

This is one reason why you shouldn’t upload work into LLMs during the peer review and grading processes. That work is confidential, and you have no right to share it without permission. You are taking someone’s intellectual property and giving it to the entire world without their consent.

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 6h

We’re already helping to fund the Russian war effort and we’ve basically ended all other aid to Ukraine. Why the fuck should the Ukrainians care about our threats anymore.

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"Chris" "Caple" 🇨🇦🥌🦫🎸🎶 @chriscaple.bsky.social · 5h

Convincing good people that money is inherently evil is a great way to ensure that all the money ends up in the hands of evil people.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 15h

I keep trying to think of any historical example where a given technology's PROMOTERS AND TRUE BELIEVERS were like 'we are absolutely going to ruin your fucking life so be prepared like it's the end of the world'

Andrew Curran: Axios is reporting that the top labs are wargaming scenarios for the aftermath of a catastrophic event in the next 6 - 12 months, that some executives now see as being inevitable.

Axios: Top executives at Anthropic, OpenAl and other Al companies are privately gaming out scenarios for a public and political revolt after a catastrophic AI event.
Why it matters: These officials anticipate a large-scale event, most likely a cyberattack, that shuts down access to financial services, internet connectivity, or even power and water.

Edouard Harris: This is our view as well. Relatedly, average people will want to increase their level of personal resilience and preparedness as their resources allow. We will be publishing about this soon.

Nick Farina: Best ways to be prepared? Generators, water, books and DVDs?

Edouard Harris: Power, water, food, sanitation for most part. Parts of this depend on your geo latitude - solar vs propane for eg.

But also: set aside a computer that is not (and ideally has never been) connected to the internet. Buy faraday pouches and tape. Print out essential docs on paper.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 23h

One of the most disconcerting moments of living in this timeline of the world in the U.S. is that A LOT of people in this country keep acting like there's a special line that needs to be crossed for fascism to *arrive.* The reality is that we are CURRENTLY living under Federal fascism. NOW.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

ya i mean i do genuinely think that one of hegseth's goals is to drive people appalled by barbarity out of the military, because the long term plan is to make the military shoot at us, and the same guys who object to this won't do that either.

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

JOINT STATEMENT OF THE FOREIGN MINISTERS OF CANADA, DENMARK, GERMANY, FRANCE, ITALY, JAPAN, THE NETHERLANDS, UNITED KINGDOM "As committed supporters of the ICC we regret and strongly disagree with the announcement of sanctions to be imposed upon the Court by the United States."

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 09/10/2026

just to emphasize what's happening here: BMW (a company that used slave labor under the Nazis) refused to provide an official vehicle to the ultra right-wing AfD party, which is now asking Elon Musk to provide a Tesla instead Tesla literally becoming the Nazi car brand

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
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Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…

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"Chris" "Caple" 🇨🇦🥌🦫🎸🎶 @chriscaple.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Criminal nation committing countless international crimes every day launches all out financial war against International Criminal Court. bsky.app/profile/jorg...

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

every senate democrat voted to confirm marco rubio.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Sam Altman said people are just gonna have to die in order to implement AI. In the very same week, Anthropic claimed it’s a human rights violation to be mean to the computer. These people need to be held accountable. They think lines of code are a person with rights but living people are debris.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This IS what this country is. It's not the only thing that it is but it is absolutely violent and barbaric. The US. is one of 55 countries that still maintain capital punishment. 140 countries have abolished it. This IS what this country is. Might as well televise the killings.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Hegseth got the job not because of his clown antics on Fox News but because during the first term he made it his personal crusade to get Trump to pardon war criminals who had murdered civilians and desecrated corpses. That’s who he is and it’s what Trump hired him to be.

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Anarcho-Crust Demon Hunter @jamesaskew.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is genocidal rhetoric

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Just today: - The Trump admin announced the first public execution since 1936. - Trump tried to incite a race war against Somalis. - Trump said anyone using the phrase AI is "THE ENEMY" - The NYT reported on a potential ICE plan to deport migrants on military boats and ferries.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren...

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I've been immersed in research on Reconstruction in Lousiana and it's a very difficult truth to absorb that the white terrorist movement in the South was among the most successful terrorist movements in global history. Took 10 years but it won a total & complete victory through murder and atrocity.

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Monique Morrissey @moniquemorrissey.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

When I was a kid, I lived in a country (Syria) with public executions (hangings) and these are by definition not happy places.

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Stephen "Miller did not want the facilities that were comfortable. He did not want facilities that were humane. We were told point-blank that that was not what the administration wanted." www.npr.org/2026/10/08/n...

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ICE has quietly used this warehouse as a detention facility all summer, neighbors say

Throughout the summer, rumors have been bubbling in North New Jersey that ICE has quietly been using a warehouse as a detention center. NPR investigated.

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Right Wing Watch @rightwingwatch.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Can't emphasize enough that "Bring Back Public Executions" has long been a fundamental tenet of radical Christian nationalists.

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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Superb piece by the always-brilliant @ggronvall.bsky.social on how the MAGA/MAHA destruction of public health—including withdrawing from the WHO, shuttering USAID, & firing so many infectious disease experts at CDC—has left the US woefully unprepared for an outbreak www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/o...

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Opinion | Here’s What Worries Me About the Russian Plague Scare (Gift Article)

America is not prepared for a major disease outbreak.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Other than South Korea so far, it looks like every country that actually *did* manage to imprison their Nazi leader, but which did not execute them, are now having a problem with this not being enough to keep the Nazi out of power again.

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

ICYMI: The Trump administration pushed other governments not to participate in a European conference on disinformation because of a panel that was focused on whether the US is now a threat for foreign influence and manipulation in Europe.

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Disinformation Conference in Europe Caught Up in Transatlantic Politics

Europe’s top disinformation conference faces government withdrawals and pressure over its debate on foreign interference, free speech and the US.

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"Chris" "Caple" 🇨🇦🥌🦫🎸🎶 @chriscaple.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I clearly need to (very belatedly) read Adorno. "Psychoanalysis in reverse" and binding people through regression are brilliant insights into how fascist propaganda works. The collective murderous ecstasy of unknowing, of unbecoming. The enraptured group unraveling into unthinking infantile fury.

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"Chris" "Caple" 🇨🇦🥌🦫🎸🎶 @chriscaple.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Via Instagram: Adorno (1951) called fascist propaganda "psychoanalysis in reverse." Where analysis makes the unconscious conscious, propaganda mobilises it: it inflames anxieties, offers enemies to project onto, and binds people through regression rather than insight. bsky.app/profile/fact...

Adorno (1951) called fascist propaganda "psychoanalysis in reverse." Where analysis makes the unconscious conscious, propaganda mobilises it: it inflames anxieties, offers enemies to project onto, and binds people through regression rather than insight.

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...

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One of America’s Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data Center

A rare 200-tree American chestnut grove in West Virginia may be cleared for data-center development, but the project denies the site is on its land.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026

you don’t hold "AI" accountable; you hold AI developers, vendors, and corporations that profit off it accountable holding "AI accountable" is like holding a toaster accountable. it's an inanimate object. it doesn't have wishes, feelings, or desires

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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I'm not saying some of these folks are feds, but I'm not not saying some of these folks are feds

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Musk advocating for Quebec separatism then following it up by saying Alberta & Saskatchewan should leave too gives away this is just about dissolving Canada for being lib, but I'm glad he's too dumb to realize it undermines separatists' chances by further associating them with right-wing Americanism

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

imagine if the mainstream media covered Republicans' number one donor — the biggest political donor in US history! — and his controversial views with as much scrutiny as they covered Hasan Piker's

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Henry Gilbert (Beloved Podcast Personality) @talkinghenry.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Skydance now owns Nick, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, Comedy Central, and MTV, effectively ending US TV animation as we know it. Countless jobs will be lost, and fewer new shows will be created. An apocalyptic scenario for cartoons, yet it's maybe the 5th-worst thing about the Paramount-WB merger!

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Something unprecedented happened during my visit to the Gulf. For the first time in 20 years in Congress, I was denied entry to U.S. military facilities and even meetings with military leaders. An order from Hegseth - that applies to both parties - to hide the cost of the war.

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The fascist monopolization of US media, intent on ending what's left of democracy on behalf of billionaire mobsters, was finalized by a Democratic-appointed SCOTUS justice.

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Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan denied a last minute
effort to halt Paramount's merger with Warner Bros.
Discovery, a transaction that is scheduled to close on
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See more details here: deadline.com/2026/10/paramo..
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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 05/10/2026

I often see people argue that clean energy is not reducing emissions, because it just adds to rather than replaces fossil fuels. This argument is deeply misguided – clean energy built since 2005 has displaced 23 billion tons. I dive in over at The Climate Brink:

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What if the world hadn't built wind and solar?

Clean energy does not simply “add to” global energy use; it displaces fossil sources that would otherwise get built.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

To be clear, these are strategic assets. They are nuclear-capable heavy bombers. This isn't some special forces A-team that got exposed and had to break contact. It isn't a planned redeployment. These are strategic U.S. military assets being run off the battlefield in Europe because of Trump.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

When you turn your military around and flee from an advancing adversary equipped with weapons you're unable to defend against, that's retreating. I'm not sure we've seen anything like this in the modern era.

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Potential Iranian Drone Attack Led to Exit of U.S. Aircraft from British Air Base (Gift Article)

According to U.S. and British officials, 12 B-1 Air Force bombers from R.A.F. Fairford air base were withdrawn because of the risk of a drone attack ordered by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps...

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This may be the first time U.S. forces have retreated in Europe during a major conflict. Not before the Nazis. Not before the Soviets. Not before Al Qaeda. Not until the Trump administration.

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Simon Owens @simonowens.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Honestly don’t know how we continue functioning as a society with such a small number of people vacuuming up this much wealth. Basically the equivalent of the US defense budget was rerouted to 500 people in just the last nine months.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Elon Musk, who is estimated to have ensured the mass deaths of 16 million people by 2030, most of whom will be children, is also history's most prolific creator and distributor of CSAM. He has basically infinite money to avoid facing any legal consequences whatsoever for his vast, vast crimes.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

So, just to review. In roughly seven months the US has had to abandon all bases in the Middle East, flee from a British base, the petrodollar system that is the foundation for hegemony has collapsed, and we’re facing historical energy and food crises. Great work. www.cnn.com/2026/10/04/p...

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US removes all Air Force bombers from UK base following new threat | CNN Politics

The United States has moved long-range bombers back to their American home stations after an unspecified new threat, according to a person familiar, days after the British government arrested a number...

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Phil PlAIt @philplait.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Goddammit. The contempt these people have for everything wondrous and good and *human* is so grotesque.

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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Fascists don't believe in peace. Peace doesn't help them. No authoritarian regime ever wants peace. Liberal democracies want peace. Peace helps them. Every liberal democracy wants peace.

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 03/10/2026

Trump corrupted America's most innovative institution, the National Science Foundation, by stealing $1.4B mandated by Congress for research. 🧪 🧵

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 03/10/2026

You can't get anyone in political media to say it plainly, but GOP strategy for several decades now has been built around the fact that its core goals/policies are *wildly unpopular*. Everything depends on a) polluting the information environment, b) cementing unfair structural advantages, & c) $$$.

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Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"The doctrine that the strong shall dominate the weak is the doctrine of our enemies. And we reject it." -- FDR

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