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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
When I visited SF this summer, I stayed at an apartment in Hayes Valley owned by an artist (i.e. not a tech person). When I introduced myself, she said “Oh, well, you chose the right neighborhood! Welcome to AI Valley! The cult lives here!” Context for how weird things are there.
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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 16/09/2026
A military base in Washington state, bird handovers at a gas station, a slew of permits, thousands of volunteer hours, nest boxes — and a whole lot of tiny, wriggling mealworms. Here’s the story of how the bluebird came back. thetyee.ca/News/2026/09...
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Bluebirds Went Extinct on Vancouver Island. Now They’re Back | The Tyee
Seventy landowners and many other volunteers have helped return their gentle, chortling song to the Cowichan Valley.
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Pengrondor @pengrondor.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Also a great guide for people on the US who want less terrible products.
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Jen Fifield @jenafifield.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
1/ Just in: An anonymous federal worker has filed a whistleblower disclosure warning that the U.S. Postal Service's attempt to create a system to regulate mail voting for the midterms has been "rushed, chaotic, and fundamentally flawed." @propublica.org has the details 👇
Screenshot of the top of a whistleblower disclosure titled "USPS Rushed Implementation of New and Untested IT Systems Threatens U.S. Ballot Mail Delivery." Addressed to Senator Blumenthal, the first point details how the whistleblower has "significant concerns about the USPS's secretive, rushed, chaotic, and fundamentally flawed process for the creation and implementation of an entirely new and untested set of IT systems" intended for the 2026 midterms.
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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Meta's stock is going up after a 17 billion settlement over harming children. When the market can simply price in the cost of crime, the way we're seeing right now, it's clear that the law is no longer a deterrent to capital. We truly live in a world with one law for people and another for capital
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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Blockbuster story by @dmehro.bsky.social and @dell.bsky.social here
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James Feigenbaum @jamesfeigenbaum.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I don't have it yet, but there's an econ history paper in these transcripts or transcripts like them (that we can now turn into textual data at the cost of pennies per hour)
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 06/06/2026
🧵 What happens when public datasets disappear? 🕳️ 🎙️ THE FIGHT FOR THE PUBLIC RECORD is a LIVE #FutureKnowledge #podcast conversation examining how public knowledge is preserved and what happens when it isn't. 📅 Tues, Jun 23 🕙 10AM PT 📍ONLINE 🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/the-fight-...
Landscape speaker tile for "The Fight for the Public Record" Future Knowledge podcast live event on June 23rd, 10am PT / 1pm ET, featuring headshots of Merrilee Proffitt (Internet Archive), James Jacobs (Stanford University), and Christopher Marcum (Federation of American Scientists), with retro-futuristic collage imagery, co-presented by Internet Archive and Authors Alliance.
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Annie Desrochers @niedesrochers.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
📻 Les détours piétons et cyclistes à Montréal sont souvent mal ou pas réfléchis.
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404 Media @404media.co · 28/05/2026
NEW: The city of Dayton, Ohio has covered its Flock automated license plate reader cameras with black trash bags in part because police there are unsure whether the cameras are still active and the city also doesn’t seem to know whether it is allowed to take the cameras down.
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Cities Are Covering Flock Cameras With Trash Bags
Regretful cities aren't sure how to cancel their surveillance contracts, so they are literally covering their cameras.
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nfariousactivities.bsky.social @nfariousactivities.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
”The NYT reviewed over 12 hours of cabinet meeting footage to analyze how his administration spoke to him…at least one of every six sentences either flattered Mr. Trump, gave him credit or criticized his political opponents.“ Each of those 3 is broken out by cabinet member. Quite the presentation!
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How Trump’s Cabinet Speaks to Him: Praise, Accolades and Lots of Criticizing Opponents (Gift Article)
The New York Times reviewed over a dozen hours of cabinet meeting footage to analyze how President Trump’s administration speaks to him. Many pack their speaking time with praise and flattery.
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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
The private car is an inefficient mode of transport in urban areas. Behold the hospital car park outside our office
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Bridget Phillips @jingibus.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
I'm not sure if you're open to this, but... have you heard the bad news about git? www.billjings.com/posts/title/...
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Git Is Not Fine
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Mark J. Nelson @mm-jj-nn.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Toru Iwanati's original sketches of Pac-Man's death animation
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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 14/05/2026
Rhubarb season reminds me of my favourite silly German video, about Barbara's rhubarb bar (which naturally serves beer to barbarians and barbers from a barmaid named Bärbel) I think it's relatively understandable if you don't speak German thanks to this charming animation youtu.be/gG62zay3kck
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Rhabarberbarbara
YouTube video by Michelle Winter
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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Sea shanties actually help people work together better. Plus they're awesome. :) www.popsci.com/science/sea-...
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Sea shanties actually help people work together better
Centuries-old work songs still possess real psychological benefits today.
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Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚🇳🇿 @notjustdna.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
🚢🦠 Thread still being written, but I want to get off on to something else, so sharing it now! 😊
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Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
One year later - my reflections on what's happened to US science since the National Science Foundation grant terminations last year. The problem of misinformation isn't going away, but our ability to study and understand it is under attack. 1/ 🧪 www.tennessean.com/story/opinio...
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I researched misinformation, until the government stopped me | Opinion
A researcher's NSF grant termination reveals a broader attack on science funding and misinformation research, despite rising AI-generated falsehoods.
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Bruno Guglielminetti @guglielminetti.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
OpenAI rappelée à l’ordre au Canada : les données personnelles ne sont pas une matière première gratuite pour entraîner l’IA. Un rapport qui pourrait changer les règles du jeu pour toute l’industrie. moncarnet.com/2026/05/06/o...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/05/2026
i have said this before but the hate you have for citizens united is imo more properly reserved for buckley v. valeo
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Aretha releases her version of Otis Redding’s “Respect” 59 yrs ago today. “I felt I could do something different with it,” she said. “The term ‘sock it to me’ was a big, big thing in our neighborhood — all the kids were saying it. The same goes for ‘TCB’, an acronym for ‘taking care of business.’”
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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Itty bitty pottery: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatis...
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Brandon Roberts @bxroberts.org · 22/04/2026
I just updated 527 Explorer, which includes filings through the end of Q1 2026. 1.2M total new records detailing contributions, expenditures and other organizational information. projects.propublica.org/527-explorer/
A table with a title of '527 Explorer Update Summary' and two columns: Report Type and Rows Added. The table body contains the count of new rows added per type of record available on the site:Contributions with 667,541, Expenditures with 614,822, Initial Filings with 1,724, Periodic Reports with 1,267, Directors/Officers with 3,793, EAIN Numbers with 376, Related Entities with 362, and New Records Total with 1,289,885. The table ends by showing the most recent record date of: 2026-03-31.
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Fred Savard @fredsavard.com · 22/04/2026
"Comme notre électorat fréquente peu les plages publiques car assez dégourdi pour posséder un chalet, on a décidé d'abandonné l'analyse de la qualité de l'eau des plages du petit monde au nom de l'efficacité" #LireEntreLesLignes
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 16/04/2026
Perhaps the wackiest invention you'll ever see (that actually works): in the early 1900s, an engineer invented a self-balancing train that ran on a single track using a clever system of gyroscopes. [kottke.org]
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The Brennan Self-Balancing Monorail
This is so cool: in the early 1900s, a mechanical engineer named Louis Brennan invented a self-balancing train that ran on a single track. This video demonstrates how the train worked using a clever system of gyroscopes.
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Libération @liberation.fr · 11/04/2026
Philippe Artières, historien : «Le caractère massif des dossiers Epstein nous fait croire à leur exhaustivité» Le directeur de recherches au CNRS tente de qualifier les millions de documents révélés par la justice américaine sur les agissements du criminel sexuel. Interview :
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Philippe Artières, historien : «Le caractère massif des dossiers Epstein nous fait croire à leur exhaustivité»
Le directeur de recherches au CNRS tente de qualifier les millions de documents révélés par la justice américaine sur les agissements du criminel sexuel. Et s’interroge sur les discours et les imaginaires sociaux qui la traversent.
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Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
That’s one hell of a cover…..
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 31/03/2026
Mark Simonson reminisces about when he discovered type design. “The idea of coming up with an original alphabet design fired my imagination. And learning that it was possible to design type professionally was a revelation.” [marksimonson.com]
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The Day I Discovered Type Design
Fifty years ago this month, March 1976, at 20 years old, is when my interest in type design began.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 27/03/2026
You must picture Sam Altman holding a knife to Tim Berner-Lee's throat. We are in a truly existential level of danger when it comes to the survival of the open web, across every front. This year is when it all comes to a head. www.anildash.com/2026/03/27/e...
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Endgame for the Open Web - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
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Carole King @carolekingofficial.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Remembering Aretha Franklin on her birthday. 💜 🙏🏼 🎵 🎹🎤
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
No really, I am not kidding when I say that the data broker industry must be destroyed: www.npr.org/2026/03/25/n...
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Your data is everywhere. The government is buying it without a warrant
Data brokers buy up huge amounts of information from cell phones and browsers to sell for targeted advertising. But the government, including ICE, also buys the data.
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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Look at us go! Now on YouTube!
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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Major credit to @rhodesben.bsky.social who spent 90 minutes answering @wired.com questions about geopolitics for a fascinating, extra-long episode of Tech Support this week:
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Former Deputy National Security Advisor Answers Geopolitics Questions | Tech Support | WIRED
YouTube video by WIRED
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
By ditching encryption, Meta is making a decision to put people's lives in danger all over the world A teenager already went to jail because of Facebook messages about abortion. Human rights activists have been tortured and murdered due to their messages being obtained Encryption is life or death
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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
"He forgets to eat, he says, unless his wife puts food in front of him. His back hurts. His eyes are constantly tired. He drinks too much coffee. Some mornings he forgets what day it is or when he last went outside."
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He Built the Definitive Epstein Database—and It Consumed His Life
The data engineer started as a casual reader of the Jeffrey Epstein files. Then he became obsessed, and built the most extensive network graph of the sexual predator’s shadowy world.
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
The Washington Post doing surveillance pricing was not on my 2026 bingo card, and if it were on anyone’s it would have been on mine
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 05/03/2026
For years, we warned that the case against Julian Assange could be used against mainstream journalists, despite what many pundits said. Well … now, it’s happening. Watch @trevortimm.bsky.social expose how the Trump administration is citing the WikiLeaks case in court to target journalists’ rights.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Jayapal: To the survivors in the room, if you are willing, please stand. And if you are willing, please raise your hands. If you have still not been able to meet with this DOJ. Please note for the record that every single survivor has raised their hand.
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CarbonPlan @carbonplan.org · 10/02/2026
Today we’re launching Open Climate Risk, a fully open option for U.S. building-level climate risk data. It’s unique because it allows you to see not only risk scores, starting with wildfire, but also the complete underlying dataset, methods, and codebase. carbonplan.org/research/cli...
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TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 25/01/2026
Bending Spoons remains largely unknown, even as its portfolio of products has served more than a billion people.
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What is Bending Spoons? Everything to know about Eventbrite’s acquirer | TechCrunch
Bending Spoons remains largely unknown, even as its portfolio of products has served more than a billion people.
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Jan-Werner Mueller @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Putin pioneered this. No opposition is legitimate. Regular, decent, “ordinary” people cannot possibly be against us because only we represent “the real people.” Tell-tale sign of authoritarianism.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Officials in authoritarian regimes often make obviously false assertions to signal loyalty to the ruler and to determine who shares that loyalty
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/01/2026
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
No he didn’t, Libby. His written remarks referred to Greenland as a “piece of ice” because that’s what it is. 

You’re the only one mixing anything up here.
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mr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 21/01/2026
Anthropic published their “soul document” This is a continuation of “constitutional AI”. The constitution document is now a large document of prose that’s used in s number of training stages, even synth data generation as well as RL & SFT (Strix confirmed fwiw) www.anthropic.com/news/claude-...
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Claude's new constitution
A new approach to a foundational document that expresses and shapes who Claude is
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Tom Costello @tomcostello.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
If you tell an AI to convince someone of a true vs. false claim, does truth win? In our *new* working paper, we find... ‘LLMs can effectively convince people to believe conspiracies’ But telling the AI not to lie might help. Details in thread
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Ellis Rosen @ellisjrosen.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
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Truthout @truthout.org · 20/01/2026
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney warned that world order is at a “rupture” point due to the U.S.’s longstanding vise-grip on the world and its swiftly expanding authoritarian nature under President Donald Trump.
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Mark Carney Warns “American Hegemony” Is Destroying World Order in Candid Speech
States like Canada have long known the current system of international rules-based order is a “fiction,” Carney said.
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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 15/01/2026
Research shows that more diverse juries are less quick to convict, and that they deliberate longer and more carefully. A landmark reform by Governor Phil Murphy on Sunday will make the jury pool in New Jersey a lot more representative of the state.
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In a Final Act, New Jersey Governor Opens Jury Service to Thousands with Convictions
New Jersey has been one of the harshest states in banning people with records from juries. Murphy’s order restores eligibility to over 300,000, but stops short of permanent change.
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