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Business Insider @businessinsider.com · 13h
"I mean, it's kind of like Hannibal Lecter: Stop me before I kill again," Bessent said. "This alarmism without solutions by some of the AI community — that's not leadership." bit.ly/4dDyFj1
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Scott Bessent compares AI CEOs who warn of catastrophe to Hannibal Lecter: 'Stop me before I kill again'
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Silicon Valley doesn't need the government to intervene.
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Carceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social · 10h
Judge Preliminarily Blesses $1.5 Million Settlement for Victims of Tiny Town's Policing for Profit Financially motivated traffic enforcement produced a huge surge in revenue for Brookside, Alabama, where fines & forfeitures accounted for half the city's income in 2020 www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...
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Judge Preliminarily Blesses $1.5 Million Settlement for Victims of a Tiny Town's 'Policing for Profit'
Financially motivated traffic enforcement produced a huge surge in revenue for Brookside, Alabama, where "fines and forfeitures" accounted for half the city's income in 2020.
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TomC360 @tomc360.bsky.social · 10h
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18-year-old in ICE detention for more than 200 days: 'They just took me away'
Elder Chavez Carranza has spent more than 200 days in an immigration detention center in Louisiana, hundreds of miles from his home in Albertville, Alabama.
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Ayla Taylor @aylataylor.bsky.social · 13h
The end panel very much has a 'afraid of being left behind' vibe. I feel like everyone keeps saying they feel 'hopeful' but it really seems like they are more afraid than anything.
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Ayla Taylor @aylataylor.bsky.social · 13h
Interestingly, there was basically no discussion (that I saw) of the questionable economics of AI. The assumption was definitely that AI will continue to be affordable and available.
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Ayla Taylor @aylataylor.bsky.social · 13h
Also, at some point, someone gave as an example of 'appropriate AI use': "if i want to know how to sign up for the Chicago Marathon, I can use AI" why are all the examples of "appropriate uses of AI" really terrible?
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Ayla Taylor @aylataylor.bsky.social · 13h
When I questioned him about this, he said "I'm not talking about AI safety as in effective altruism. Im just talking about how to make AI safe" but he literally had 80,000 hours as one of his resources.
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Ayla Taylor @aylataylor.bsky.social · 13h
The panel that started this thread (about the environmental impact of AI that was secretly about existential risk) was the worst I went to. He said a lot of the real risks but then would mention "RSI" and ended it with a "how to get involved" slide that was all AI safety orgs.
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Ayla Taylor @aylataylor.bsky.social · 13h
Some of the other panels were better but still were working from the perspective of AI use being good and how to 'use it ethically'. A panelist was listing a bunch of harms, and then the moderator was like "everyone obviously wants to learn how to use AI..." which was kind of funny
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Ayla Taylor @aylataylor.bsky.social · 13h
At one point, a panelist said "We really don't know what the risks of AI really are. CEOs say things but who knows???" And I'm like... have you tried to look at people like @timnitgebru.blacksky.app who are actually doing work on this instead of listening to CEOs??? That might be a start!
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Ayla Taylor @aylataylor.bsky.social · 13h
The opening panel included a lot of 'AI is here to stay so we have to adapt' talk, and also ’we aren't trying to push adoption, we just want informed choices'. ... okay, why are all of the initiatives you are talking about are focused exclusive on adoption.
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Tim White @twmcltd.bsky.social · 15h
There are reports Ukraine hit the "Voskhod" factory in Kaluga. Its a joint civilian/military production enterprise. Local housing was damaged as some drones were shot down.
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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
💥 Trump Crime Family. CNN investigation revealing Jared Kushner, tasked by Trump to negotiate peace in Gaza, owns a company with a major stake in a firm linked to Israel's military
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 03/10/2026
Experts say now is an ideal time to get a flu shot, before influenza starts spreading widely.
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Here's why experts say now is an ideal time to protect yourself from flu
Experts say now is an ideal time to get a flu shot, before influenza starts spreading widely. It's also a good time for vulnerable people to get vaccinated against another winter risk, RSV, and to get up to date on protection against COVID-19.
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Harry will have all the fun then @brewerelac.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
#SussexSquad Most people would hear that photographers were walking around a school looking in through the perimeter and think: "That sounds inappropriate." Royal correspondents hear the same thing and apparently think: "Let's discuss whether Meghan is asking for too much privacy."
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When Did Protecting Children Become a Royal Controversy?
October 2026 Photographers were seen around the perimeter of the school attended by Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet, looking into the grounds before returning to a white van. A spokesperson for …
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Colleen Gruver @colleengruver.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
#SussexSquad
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A major win! A federal court in Texas today temporarily blocked the Trump administration from building a border wall and other infrastructure across the state’s Big Bend region. The fight isn’t over, but this is a big step toward protecting Big Bend!
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Judge temporarily blocks border wall construction in Texas’ Big Bend region
A federal court in Texas has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from building a border wall in the Big Bend region.
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 02/10/2026
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Amazon’s $1B plan to combat data center backlash draws more backlash
Amazon praised for ending NDAs but slammed for downplaying data center pollution.
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alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social @alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
One of the largest Dutch eyewear retail chains said on Friday it had suspended sales of Meta's smart glasses in the Netherlands ​and Belgium amid growing privacy concerns. following the questions being raised about the conditions under which they can be used www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
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Dutch eyewear chain Hans Anders halts sale of Meta glasses, citing privacy concerns
One of the largest Dutch eyewear retail chains said on Friday it had suspended sales of Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses in the Netherlands ​and Belgium amid growing privacy concerns, in one of the first ...
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ToonHive @toonhive.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
John Leguizamo calls Skydance’s threat to move Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery’s film and TV out of Los Angeles “despicable” and “heartless.” “But that’s still not enough! You’ve got an expiration date. So people have to plan for the next five years, and then what? No, that’s not cool.”
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Sean Connery in The Untouchables
ALT: Sean Connery in The Untouchables
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 02/10/2026
The kicker is *chef's kiss*
“You think we’re getting a little too close to Meta?” [John Georges, co-owner of Georges Media Group, the state’s largest media organization and parent company of the state’s largest newspaper, The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate], asked. “I’m not afraid of the sun. You know — Icarus? I’ll get as close to the sun as I can.”
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Autumn 🧸 @autumnoutloud.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
So you’re telling me…that a win-or-go-home WNBA playoff game in one of the best arenas in the league…is on ESPN TWO??? While a couple of unranked college football teams play a week 5 game on the main channel?????
A’ja Wilson, Paige Bueckers, and Sabrina Ionescu looking very confused
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Forbes @forbes.com · 02/10/2026
Kushner’s private equity firm is the largest stakeholder in an Israeli financial institution that invests in Israeli defense companies.
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Kushner Rejects CNN Report That His Israeli Diplomacy Might Benefit His Private Equity Fund
Kushner’s private equity firm is the largest stakeholder in an Israeli financial institution that invests in Israeli defense companies.
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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 03/10/2026
The constant and frantic need to keep building more and more of their surveillance state is absolutely going to be a huge part of their downfall
theverge.com
Amazon’s delivery driver smart glasses will reportedly take photos ‘almost constantly’
Your Amazon delivery could come with an unwanted photo op.
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Mjkwho @mjkwho.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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tomwellborn3rd @wellborn.net · 01/10/2026
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: In a win for voters, the Kansas Court of Appeals Friday denied Secretary of State Scott Schwab’s (R) latest request to revive a GOP-backed law that would throw out mail-in ballots received after Election Day, even if they were cast on time. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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GOP bid to scrap Kansas mail ballot grace period fails again
The ruling means Kansas election officials must continue counting ballots postmarked by Election Day and received within the following three days, including in the upcoming November elections.
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Andrew Rothstein @asrothstein.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Tony Romo drove drunk. He doesn't deny it. In fact he plead no contest and has taken ownership of his actions and publicly acknowledged his struggles with pain medication and now alcohol. For that he got canned by CBS while the NFL suspends players ~4-6 games for domestic violence. The NFL sucks
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𝔐𝔞𝔤𝔫𝔢𝔱𝔰 🧲 @magnets.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026
integrity of english football entirely reliant on whether the labour party are willing to stand up to despots who have turned man city into a plaything. funny
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 02/10/2026
Talk about not reading the room...
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Clayton Tucker @claytontuckertx.com · 02/10/2026
🚨 BREAKING NEWS: A federal judge just HALTED the destruction of Big Bend. This is a massive victory for the landowners, local communities, and everyday Texans who stood up to protect one of our state's greatest treasures. The fight isn't over, but today, the people won.
Graphic from the Center for Biological Diversity over a scenic view of Big Bend. Large text reads, “MASSIVE WIN FOR BIG BEND.” Below, it says a federal judge has frozen all destruction throughout the Big Bend region until the project’s legality can be determined in court. The graphic adds that the Center will continue fighting to save Big Bend and asks supporters to join them.
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Bionic B!tch Ass @millsypop.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I am SO tired of Waymos! California needs a ban on autonomous cars. Last night I waited for 7 minutes on Hyperion before this dipshit autonomous car’s remote driver took over the controls and moved out of traffic.
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Nick Dearden @nickdearden.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Massive crowd outside Palantir’s HQ. Throw this evil corporation out of our public services.
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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
NEW: Partially unsealed court filings show that ICE has been putting photos of people observing their activities into a Palantir-built database as well as tracking and intimidating them. @regret.bsky.social and @dmehro.bsky.social have the details:
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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
At least 56 people have died in ICE custody during Trump’s second term. According to ICE’s internal reviews, detention staff did not provide sufficient medical care to at least six of those detainees. ICE has now taken down those reviews from its website. What other cruelty is ICE trying to hide?
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ICE Deleted Reviews for Deaths in Custody That Cited Shoddy Medical Care
Three-quarters of ICE’s own 2025 death reviews, briefly posted online, raised substandard and “inappropriate” care of il
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Seriously 💥
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Directing DOJ to slow-walk politically damaging decisions until after people vote would be a major scandal under any normal administration. Here, it’s just Friday.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Kansas has 4 former, living GOP governors. Two have now endorsed Adam Hamilton, the Dem, for Senate. Mike Hayden just penned this oped in the Kansas City Star this morning; Adam Graves had done the same last month.
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Ginny Hogan @ginnyhogan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I got an IUD inserted 2 months after I gave birth, and I asked the doctor if it would hurt. She told me it wouldn’t hurt as much as childbirth, which… cannot possibly be the standard we’re working off for the rest of my life
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Arrête Mark Carney ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
They are acting like the Cornell 7 happened in a vacuum when we just went through the Hockey Canada 5 and the players have all been rehired, and play for both American and Canadian teams. There are no consequences for these kinds of men and the faux outrage is exhausting.
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 02/10/2026
New York governor vows to close legal loophole after Cornell gang rape allegations
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New York governor vows to close legal loophole after Cornell gang rape allegations
Following public outcry over an alleged gang rape at Cornell University in 2024, New York Governor Kathy Hochul called for closing a loophole in state law that allows offenders to avoid rape charges if their victims were willingly intoxicated.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 02/10/2026
It’s not just the 7. Or the 57. It’s the whole system.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 02/10/2026
This is a better epilogue to my January story about the private equity firm profiting off of ICE's cruelest flights than I could have ever possibly hoped for. CHICAGO: You went to the mat and protected (at a minimum!) thousands of immigrants from torture. Take a bow. prospect.org/2026/10/02/i...
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The City That Brought Down an ICE Airline - The American Prospect
In Chicago, progressive alderpeople held up a contract until a private equity firm was forced to dispatch Omni Air International, protecting thousands of immigrants from deportation.
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If NFL broadcasters are going to treat Deshaun Watson being ok at QB as a sign that he has been Redeemed For His Past, they must remain ideologically consistent. If he starts playing badly again they have to blame it on his failure to repent for his heinous sexual misconduct
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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Michael Tracey published what he said was the ID of the "Jane Doe" in the Cornell case. Then he took it down, claiming he just wanted to make a point and didn't want to see harm to the person he named. What he hasn't admitted is that he mistook info on a sketchy site for official NY court records.
An archived copy of Michael Tracey's original Substack post includes a screenshot from "eCourt Records" and the commentary: "It's [name redacted]. Don't blame me -- the New York Court System just posted it. Seemingly inadvertently. Oh well."Screenshot of Michael Tracey's post on Substack titled "Note on Jane Doe." It reads: "After identifying Jane Doe earlier tonight, I have now removed the information I published. Why? Because the principle has been served: to underscore that permanently anonymizing litigants who make sensational, spectacular, reputation-destroying claims about others — so long as they can self-declare some form of victimization — cannot be countenanced.

It’s destructive, and an egregious abuse of the legal system by huckster plaintiff’s lawyers. This practice has to end. Lawyers who seek to monetize this sleazy tactic should have to think A LOT HARDER about the claims they’re willing to throw out into the public domain, using impressionable clients who may not even know what they’re getting themselves into.

So why have I now removed her information?

Because I don’t believe she’s the main “villain” here. I primarily blame the bottom-feeding, media-manipulating, sleazebag lawyers who’ve made a whole cash-grab industry out of this racket.

Thomas Giuffra in particular has a lot to answer for. He’s the central reason for the current debacle.

Given the intense nationwide and global interest in this case, I don’t want to bring any further negative attention to this woman. I don’t believe she ought to be punished or subjected to any retribution or humiliation. I believe a RATIONAL solution is necessary here. Not more character assassination — of her, the seven young men, or anyone else. Truly, that is my genuine view."
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Pissedoffpundit @pissedoffpundant.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Rep. Robert Garcia @robertgarcia.house.gov · 02/10/2026
This corruption must be investigated.
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