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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 29/09/2026
Muse launched with a nasty zero day flaw that gave hackers access to total surveillance of your Mac. Others then showed the agent completely fucked up when put in charge of Marketplace, selling products for dirt cheap and handing out the end user address
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 26/09/2026
Damn. With the alt text:
The incident fits a broader pattern in the discourse around 'free speech' and 'cancel culture': 
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whatever comes from the top down is freedom; whatever comes from the bottom up is bullying and censorship.
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When Macklemore is dropped at the behest of the billionaire stadium owner Robert Kraft, it's an exercise of the freedom of businesses to 'demonstrate their values' by deciding whom to platform. But when Ed Sheeran's fans decide not to buy tickets to his performances, or even demand refunds, it's bullying, mob behaviour. Since most people are not billionaires and do not own stadiums, they can exercise meaningful power only collectively. The collective exercise of power must therefore be demonised.
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Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 21/08/2024
It's gonna take me awhile (may do a post daily), but this inspired me to do a thread on why each of Yemen's twenty-one diverse governorates is awesome and cool to show a different side of the country
Map of the Governorates of YemenTopographic map of Yemen showing low lying green areas along the coast, and more elevated brownish areas in the interior, with a ridge of greyish mountains running down the western edge of the elevated areas before the coastA map of Yemen's (non-perennial) waterwaysA map of population density by governorate in Yemen with the eastern 2/3 of the country being relatively lightly shaded and the western one-third darkly shaded, especially in the southwest in Ta'iz and Ibb
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 17/09/2026
Great piece by @xriskology.bsky.social on how the effective altruism cult has helped destroy actual philanthropy - with dangerous and deadly results for many people in need:
realtimetechpocalypse.com
Effective Altruism Is a Dangerous Cult — Here's Why
Understanding the "Scientology of Silicon Valley." (7,700 words)
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Mai El-Sadany @maitelsadany.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Since the genocide began, artists have spoken up, donated, worn buttons, but what Macklemore is doing is forcing a much higher stakes conversation that pushes beyond comfortable solidarity and instead demands of artists to consider what they are actually to give up for their values.
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Working Families Party 🐺 @workingfamilies.org · 16/09/2026
The political upset in Delaware last night is clear proof that voters have had enough of corporate Democrats who bow to billionaires like Elon Musk. Here’s what happened:
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Tomas Hirst @tomashirstecon.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Another clear and knowable downstream consequence of letting scammers get rich off crypto was that that money would boomerang back into politics in ways that were highly likely to try to skirt around fundraising laws and distort policy incentives.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I wrote this quickly at a bus stop and didn't realize it would go viral, or else I would have worded it better. But the point is that the media is too credulous about AI killing everyone in 10 years (how?) when climate change is killing people now and will only get worse (we know exactly how).
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sam @samthielman.com · 13/09/2026
He and AOC clearly hired the worst consultants in all the land in the last month
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The dust settles on a humongous $$$ drop by the GOP in Texas: They just dumped $75 million into helping Paxton. That gives Paxton's side a 5:1 spending advantage at this stage: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/u...
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"People are really mad and however mad you are, it’s not enough. Because there is something so profound about no longer believing in the future, about seeing no value in our shared home, in the natural world. They’re traitors to creation.” www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...
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Naomi Klein: ‘Extreme wealth has a deranging effect. It turns you into a supremacist’
She’s tackled neoliberalism and the digital world, now the writer and activist is taking on tech billionaires. She explains how the super-rich are capitalising on climate and financial chaos in pursui...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Honestly, I'd say the most disastrous decisions of Obama and Biden were not really holding anyone accountable for crimes committed under the previous administration. Obama wanted to "turn the page" on Iraq and the financial meltdown while Biden never put any urgency behind the January 6th cases
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keynesaddiction.bsky.social @keynesaddiction.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
They dont give a shit about anything else but how much generational wealth they will create for there braindead kids. This is why they have been pulling their punches. fortune.com/2026/06/18/t...
fortune.com
Son of pro-crypto New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand raises $30 million to launch a derivatives exchange | Fortune
Lux Capital led the investment, which values the Stanford graduate’s exchange at $300 million.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I think I noted during the recent Belfast riots that a certain kind of man is not really interested in protecting women & girls; he's interested in protecting the exclusive right of his kind of man to abuse and control women and girls.
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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 08/09/2026
Post from Mastodon user @intransitivelie@beige.party:

I regret to inform everyone that my copy of QBittorrent escaped its sandbox last night and downloaded a whole bunch of content owned by major corporations, and then my copy of Jellyfin broke containment and added those unfortunately-downloaded media files to its various libraries. I'm conducting an internal investigation to figure out how this happened, which will involve consuming these media files until the answers become apparent. Thank you for your cooperation during this trying time.

I'm happy to give you all the information you need to reproduce these unfortunate and completely unforeseen errors yourself.
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
centrist dems be like “we have bold, serious, inspiring policy proposals” and it’s literally fucking taxpayer subsidized car loans
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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
yet in may all but three commissioners on the almost entirely democratic-controlled cook county board voted to approve nearly $1 million to double the size of sheriff tom dart’s flock alpr network
chicagoreader.com
Cook County expands Flock license plate reader network - Chicago Reader
The county board approved Sheriff Tom Dart’s $1 million request, even as his office used the technology for years without an active contract.
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Defector @defector.com · 02/09/2026
It's time to grow up: defector.com/its-time-to-...
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It’s Time To Grow Up | Defector
HBO’s new Harry Potter TV series is premiering this Christmas Day. Under current plans, it will last at least a decade. The trailer looks like the original films were run through an AI generator, but…
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 03/09/2026
Oftentimes the Western attitude towards non-Westerners is so baked into their worldviews they don't even notice it. But it's very obvious, when the majority of anti-war sentiment coalesces around "throwing away the lives of troops", that the lives of those outside the metropole don't matter at all.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 03/09/2026
every single day elon musk says or endorses stuff on x dot com that is worse than any of the quotes they've pulled up for hasan piker and he will be the single biggest political donor in the entire country, supporting republicans up and down the ballot somehow none of them are asked about it
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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The new whistleblower complaint makes it clear Trump's Post office can not be trusted to deliver your ballots. They are planning to not deliver ballots. We need Democratic Attorneys General to make it clear they will be SWIFTLY prosecuting anyone involved! www.mediaite.com/media/news/s...
mediaite.com
‘Sh*t Show!’ US Postal Service Whistleblower Reportedly Warns Trump’s Mail Ballot Rules Could Lead to Mass Disenfranchisement
A USPS whistleblower has raised “grave concerns” that a system being rapidly prepared for roll out that may ultimately disenfranchise millions of voters.
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Mrs. Detective Pikajew, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 30/08/2026
Mother speaks
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Part of the problem of aggressively fighting insurgent candidates is that it reveals to the base that you’re capable of fighting and then the question changes from why can’t they fight to why are they fighting the battles they’re fighting? It’s a spiral and the desperation only makes it worse.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 28/08/2026
Centrists cannot bring people on the left "back in line." They have to quit it with this rhetoric. If they treat people on the left as a greater enemy than Trump, the thing that is going to happen is that people on the left will fucking fight them tooth and nail. Include me in that number.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
The fact that Jeffries is meeting with Kushner to find “common ground” with this fascist administration while simultaneously publicly attacking the Democratic left shows clearly who he is and why he is backed by corporatist and pro-Israel donors. Jeffries is the definition of controlled opposition.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
‼️ Hakeem Jeffries met with Jared Kushner to discuss “how Democrats and the administration could work together.” Gift link:
nytimes.com
Jeffries and Kushner Meet Privately as Midterm Attacks Fly (Gift Article)
President Trump’s son-in-law and the man in line to be speaker of a Democratic-led House discussed how Democrats and the administration could work together.
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daniel sieradski @self.agency · 23/08/2026
there are now almost 600 signatories to the pro-cofnas letter. of the first 100 i examined, _two_ spoke out against campus crackdowns on pro-palestinian speech. 75 said nothing and 23 spoke out _in support of the crackdowns_!
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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 22/08/2026
We are openly signaling and moving our state department in Brasil to undermine Lula and the PT government in the layup to their next election cycle. We did this for a full year before Colombia’s election with their new far right wing government. Again, nearly nothing in our news. It’s a joke.
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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 22/08/2026
As of today, the US is actively undermining the Morena government by intentionally undermining the border states with Morena governments while rubbing elbows (and running illegal intelligence operations) with the states that still have right leaning state governments. No news coverage. Nothing.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I think about this at least once a week. And how desperate he must have been and how gleeful these big tech bastards are as they eat the planet and our history and all of human endeavour
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
They didn't like Aaron Swartz's goals (making scientific knowledge more accessible to the public) and they do like the LLM companies' goals (permanently crushing the labor market for knowledge workers)
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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.blacksky.app · 22/08/2026
I really wish we talked more about how many execs are functionally sociopaths. They know other people exist and they don't care
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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I know they're all gaslighting liars, but it's remarkable how thoroughly the "cancel culture" myth redefined "censorship" to mean "someone using their free speech to criticize me." Meanwhile, actual censorship is just fine for all these people.
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
“Do black people have human levels of intelligence? Are gays degenerate?” The thing is, you would not allow people to waste time and scare their coworkers with this nonsense if you ran a Walmart. A certain level of order is required to get anything done.
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CB @coloredblue.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
"[The Guardian's] silence and defensiveness is also exposing its reporters to harm, in my view. They’re the ones with their names on the stories even though they have no power or control whatsoever over when or what is published. It’s editors who make these decisions collectively."
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
NEW: I can't get this story out of my head. And I know I'm not alone. The attempt to cover up the complicity of the UK media's role in Jason Arday's death may be its sickest move yet. broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-jason-...
broligarchy.substack.com
The Jason Arday Reckoning
The attempts to cover up the complicity of the UK media’s role in his death may be its sickest move yet
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Some of the richest people in the world want a racial caste system, and they want scholarly backing for that in the form of racist pseudoscience. And a lot of ostensibly non racist people quietly agree, and don’t like to see those who peddle that pseudoscience excluded from mainstream institutions.
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DirgeMcB @drjmcb.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
if you haven't seen the Hasan Minaj neo-luddite interview its really great www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxpV...
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The Gen Z Backlash to Big Tech
YouTube video by Hasan Minhaj
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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Still thinking about the Luddites I came across this. How fascinating it is to watch what might be the germ of a neo-Luddite movement around surveillance technology. And a guy writing a nudge-wink, fuck-the-man, banger of a country song makes me feel American in a way that for once isn’t pejorative.
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CB @coloredblue.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Amazing.
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Matt Goldberg @mattgoldberg.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
It's also such a bizarre framing of who matters. The most important thing is to protect an adult's wrong-headed beliefs, not the life of a child.
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I wonder if any stuck-in-the-90s dems will dimly perceive how one obviously deliberate but casually presented line in a speech forced the media to start reporting a two year old story www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/u...
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Natalie Harp, Trump’s Most Devoted Aide, Is Always by His Side. What Exactly Does She Do? (Gift Article)
President Trump’s White House aide Natalie Harp is always by his side. What, exactly, does she do?
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The ag lobby really, really, really, really, really, really, really wants you to think AI is the reason reservoirs are going empty. It's not. It's agriculture.
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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The fundraising texts you delete are working on someone. It’s infuriating and heartbreaking. An 85yo in Ohio gave more than double the value of his home. A 91yo in an Indianapolis senior facility gave 25K times. The DCCC/DSCC don’t just tolerate the spammers who exploit seniors. They take part.
data4democracy.substack.com
Hook and Squeeze
How Democratic consultants, committees, and party leaders built a fundraising spam pipeline that funnels money from a captive pool of elderly donors into their own operations.
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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
“As The New York Times reported in 2021, the all-caps writing and manufactured panic of political fundraising spam function as a filter, repelling savvy donors and taking advantage of the same cognitive vulnerabilities that make seniors targets for online fraud” Wowow
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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Some people have been asking why there’s been so much focus and criticism this year on the Congressional D leadership, Schumer and Jeffries, and the leadership PACs: the DSCC and DCCC and people like Gillibrand the DSCC head. This is why 👇👇.
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