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Colin Megill @colinmegill.com · 20/06/2026

Israel should withdraw immediately against smaller force with drones. Learn from Ukraine. Need a different path. timesofisrael.com/several-said-injured-in-israeli-strikes-on-southern-lebanon

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5 IDF soldiers injured, one seriously, in explosive drone attacks in southern Lebanon | The Times of Israel

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Colin Megill @colinmegill.com · 20/06/2026

Iran had handily de facto legalized Hezbollah presence in Lebanon. Masterstroke. And a layup against those two. A lesson in international law for Trump and Vance. Politics is not business. Political negotiations are not business negotiations. Weak and pathetic. Sideline State Dept: FAFO

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Colin Megill @colinmegill.com · 20/06/2026

Now, as it's fallen apart, Trump and Vance take a regime change position for Israel? Early signals at this hour? www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...

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Report: US officials working to establish informal channels with Israel’s opposition

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Colin Megill @colinmegill.com · 20/06/2026

Step 1: Allow Israel to behave as usual Step 2: Close strait citing breach Step 3: Leave Trump to hammer Bibi

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Colin Megill @colinmegill.com · 20/06/2026

Trump's Versailles treaty will forever be remembered as having ceded Lebanon to Iran territorially on threat of global oil shutdown. Catastrophe for Israel. Israel's post "we committed genocide and then finally got the catastrophe war" political position looking precarious

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Colin Megill @colinmegill.com · 20/06/2026

Iran, which because history civilization geography and physics has had to play actual 8d chess for 4000 years Is up against two ferrets looking for grapes DEFINITELY won't crack the whip when Israel attacks Lebanon lest Vance immediately go to Switzerland www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

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Vance expects Iran talks soon, as Guards say Hormuz is closed again

Iran said that the closure was the first step in response to what it described as breaches of commitments and warned that further measures ⁠would be taken if aggression continued.

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Colin Megill @colinmegill.com · 09/06/2026

Hey thanks for the reply and hope all is great up there! I guess I spoke in 2015 and was linking back to show someone in a convo about early react. I'll grab you a url from wayback machine

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Colin Megill @colinmegill.com · 08/06/2026

@seattlejs.com you guys delete all your old videos? was there a reason? was surprised

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scott⚡️mccloud @scottmccloud.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

“Died of sadness,” according to family. An immeasurable loss.

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scott⚡️mccloud @scottmccloud.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Persepolis was read all over the world—a true international phenomenon. Assigned in every class subject under the sun. During the Obama years, West Point cadets were assigned the book. There's never been anything like it; never anyone like her. What an awful world that couldn't hold her longer.

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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

1/ Ukraine's incessant drone strikes on the Russian rear are causing deep concern among Russian warbloggers. One points out that the entire region's logistics depend completely on road transport and forecasts a "very serious situation" developing. ⬇️ bsky.app/profile/noel...

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Colin Megill @colinmegill.com · 09/05/2026

Ah yes the anti technology technology users

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gquaggiotto.bsky.social @gquaggiotto.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

"In the American context, the idea of a small party unifying voters across left and right sounds like a pipe dream. But there is evidence it worked in Japan" www.techpolicy.press/japans-team-...

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Japan's Team Mirai Uses Tech to Bolster Democracy, Not Undermine It

Team Mirai illustrates the viability of a different way to do politics, write Nathan Sanders and Bruce Schneier.

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hardmaru @hardmaru.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Reproducing all of Jürgen Schmidhuber’s papers (1990-2025) using an AI coding assistant. Cool project by Yaroslav! It even reproduced the “World Models” paper by me and Schmidhuber (2018) using a toy environment, with a full VAE + RNN world model implementation. Project: github.com/cybertronai/...

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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

😄 A red notebook with the inscription "List of assholes 2026" was noticed on the desk of the head of OP Budanov.

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Colin Megill @colinmegill.com · 10/02/2026

As a former teacher, and as a parent, and as an SF resident and renter, I'm with the teachers in SF: it's time to fund schools. To do that we need to change the tax base. To do that we need to overcome NIMBY politics. SF has to become a city again.

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Colin Megill @colinmegill.com · 10/02/2026

The strike in SF backs up to long broken housing taxation and permitting, which has long been a national issue, but this is different. This is decades after that. This is a city that doesn't have people to do basic things. And the teachers are the ones to call it...

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Colin Megill @colinmegill.com · 10/02/2026

Parenting in SF right now to kids in public school and I kinda think this is the big one. As a former teacher talking to teacher friends... I think this needs divine intervention (...@governor.ca.gov) or it's going very long. Negotiations were already a year in.

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Keith Meyers @rwk-keith.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Mushrooms along the Silver River in Michigan's Upper Peninsula for #MushroomMonday!

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 06/11/2025

Well, it’s dark and rainy all the time now. But the mushrooms are thriving.

maybe a russala? unidentified mushroom peeking through moss

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mySociety @mysociety.org · 31/10/2025

@colinmegill.com made the grand reveal of Pol.is 2.0 - the new generation of the software that allows for people with different opinions to reach consensus, at #TICTeC 2025 - another great one to rewatch! youtu.be/Q8kMOg4EPQA

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thekoolaidmom.bsky.social @thekoolaidmom.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

#NoKings event in Fairhope, Al. A woman was arrested for "lewd conduct" because she was dressed in penis suit with a sign that said "No dick-tator" 3 cops on a 53 yo woman.

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Of all the clerics they could have popped, those ICE idiots had to hit Hot Priest.

Presbyterian minister David Black on CNN, who was shot with pepper balls while praying outside an ICE facility.

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 09/10/2025

New reddit alternative built on AT

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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

‘Brexit is a tragedy and it will be reversed.’ 💥 #Heseltine is the best political communicator by a long way. His emphatic call for rejoining the EU cuts through the noise, grounded in truth, while the counterarguments cling to a dwindling minority of Brexit believers. 1/2

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Michael Bernstein @mbernst.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Stanford Engineering (@StanfordEng) launched an open-rank faculty search in design. It can place candidates in any department in our School of Engineering: facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49... I'm thrilled to bring in more colleagues at the intersection of engineering+design!

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Stanford | Faculty Positions: Details - Open Rank Faculty Position in School of Engineering, Design

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Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org · 09/07/2025

I wrote something new! It’s a UI design history essay about Mac’s Control Panel, and it uses emulation in some… maybe new and maybe interesting ways? aresluna.org/frame-of-pre...

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Frame of preference

A story of early Mac settings told by 10 emulators.

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Colin Megill @colinmegill.com · 13/08/2025

4.5 was the one they should have open sourced.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 02/07/2025

Bluesky's near-consensus that AI doesn't work and won't be a technology that has major knock-on effects on society is…not grounded in reality. No mater how loudly and repetitively people say it.

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mySociety @mysociety.org · 11/06/2025

And now we have a panel 'Growing the Open Society: Tech and democratic innovation' with @fecampagnucci.com, @colinmegill.com from Polis (a real time system for gathering and analysing what real people think), and Lula Chen from MIT Governance Lab. #TICTeC

Panel on Growing the Open Society: Tech and democratic innovation

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Julia Cushion @juliacushion.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Fantastic panel at #TICTeC Day 2 ✨ @fecampagnucci.com ✨Lula Chen from MIT GOV/LAB ✨ @colinmegill.com from Pol.is

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(((E. Glen Weyl/衛谷倫))) ⿻ 🇺🇸/🇩🇪/🇹🇼 @glenweyl.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

I might go as far as to say that the attempt to “get past” process is actually a part of that problem because it further undermines the attempt to have the conversation we need about process.

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Colin Megill @colinmegill.com · 04/06/2025

This has to be critical assumption of next generation of dem tech

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Colin Megill @colinmegill.com · 04/06/2025

Agree with @glenweyl.bsky.social: "We cannot "get past" process. We must improve on it."

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(((E. Glen Weyl/衛谷倫))) ⿻ 🇺🇸/🇩🇪/🇹🇼 @glenweyl.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

or thinking that what they believe is the answer will appear unattractive to the "hoi poloi" and therefore needs to be hidden. Making the case for why I think this is bad practice is hard to do briefly, but I think it is a strategic mistake.We cannot "get past" process. We must improve on it.

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mySociety @mysociety.org · 27/05/2025

TICTeC day 2's plenary sees @fecampagnucci.com of @internetlab.bsky.social; @colinmegill.com‬ of Polis & the Computational Democracy Project; ‪@martintisne.bsky.social‬ of the AI Collaborative and our own @itscrowbot.bsky.social‬. Join the conversation: tictec.mysociety.org/event/tictec... ‬ ‬

TICTeC 2025 Growing the Open Society: tech and democratic innovation. Fernanda Campagnucci, InternetLab/University of Muenster; Colin Megill Polis/The Computational Democracy Project; Martin Tisne, AI Collaborative; Louise Crow mySociety. Day 2 of TICTeC June 11 2025, 10:15-11:00, Mechelen and online

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Colin Megill @colinmegill.com · 13/05/2025

not the wedge issue platform, the union issue platform at some point there's a tip-over

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 11/05/2025

Older parents are constantly telling those in the early days to cherish it. But that can be very hard advice to follow when you’re in the thick of it. In the Wonder Reader, Isabel Fattal rounds up stories on the gems and the challenges of parenting:

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Nostalgia for the Early Days of Parenting

“Cherish it while you can” is hard advice to follow for many new parents.

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Benjamin Dewey @benjamindewey.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

I hardly ever draw on paper anymore and I miss it. I miss the results.

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Josh Johnson @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

The 100 Men Vs 1 Gorilla debate

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Colin Megill @colinmegill.com · 05/05/2025

Lost a dear friend to cancer today, absolute force of nature. As a doctor, Dana was hope for many patients. Joyous, generous, humble. Impossible that she's gone, leaving behind a young daughter. We loved you Dana Lott — you'll be in our hearts forever. today.duke.edu/2019/09/blue...

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Blue Devil of the Week: Helping Patients Take Steps Toward Healing | Duke Today

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John David Pressman @jdp.extropian.net · 27/04/2025

Oh hell yes.

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