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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 11h
NEW: Footage from Thursdays shooting shows an ICE agent in a construction vest brandishing a rifle. His name is Brenden Cuni. Federal judges have found multiple arrests involving Cuni unlawful. He has been accused of repeatedly Tasing a handcuffed man and tackling a pregnant woman in Minneapolis.
wired.com
ICE Agent at NYC Shooting Has History of Alleged Violence and Illegal Arrests
Brenden Cuni, an ICE supervisor, has been accused of excessive force and tackling a pregnant woman to the ground. Several of his arrests were later found to be unlawful in federal court.
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The City Reporter @thecityreporter.nyc · 15h
Iris Rose, a school therapist, said she saw a man bleeding on the ground in front of a car, while agents milled around, one holding a small child. “He was all full of blood,” she said. “How could you do this? What is going on? And then I’m looking at the baby.” The latest:
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ICE Agents Shoot New Yorker, Officials Say
As shots rang out, bystanders sheltered in neighboring businesses, eyewitnesses told The City Reporter and Documented.
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Erica Henderson @ericafails.bsky.social · 19h
Guys, this post got me a Bsky blue check. I couldn't be happier that this is how it happened.
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John Breen @breen.tech · 20h
Man, this answer from Ta-Nehisi Coates about how he felt about Kamala Harris saying that she wants to have “the most lethal fighting force in the world” is really good. He talks about why she might feel like she has to say that, but gives most of his response to the victims of that lethality
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
So... "cable"... we're just doing cable again.
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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Econ 101
Person one: Taught my kids how socialism works. Let them trick or treat while I stayed home. Then took all their candy. Socialism 101.

Person two : The socialism part is where the community came together and fed your kids for free. The capitalism part is where you made them do all the work and stole from them.
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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
new wolfenstein looks like shit
its pete hegseth splaying his arms christlike at a podium with all sorts of americana bunting thats got a distinct fash aesthetic
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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Ahem…
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Áine ☽𖤐☾ @whoa-magic.lol · 02/10/2026
ICE doesn't have to exist. The End.
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Kate Hagen's House of Horrors 👻 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Meanwhile, Jane Doe dropped out of Cornell and was denied her request to get her tuition refunded so that she could transfer to a different college. She hence faced more severe consequences than most of the men who she alleges gang-raped her." www.thecut.com/article/what...
thecut.com
What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
While we’re talking about campus sexual violence, I want to revisit the recent history of a topic where we have seen some of the biggest backslides: Expelling rapists from school.
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Andrew Schreck @andrewschreck.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
i don't think cis guys realize how much power they can shift in a conversation just by casually telling their friends
"that's fucked up, man" when someone says something
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
the horrific cornell gang rape case has me thinking about emma sulkowicz who alleged she was raped as a student at columbia in 2014 and never got any justice. it has me thinking about the physical and mental weight young women are forced to carry while their safety is subsumed by male potential.
Emma Sulkowicz carrying around a mattress on the Columbia campus in 2014 to raise awareness of her alleged rape and the university's inaction.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“we are witnessing a rare, very possibly once-in-a-lifetime political liar” Credit to Daniel Dale for this deep dive into Trump’s lies, the topics he lies about most; why MAGA loves the lies & the impact of the press failure to consistently fact check Trump. www.cnn.com/2026/09/27/p...
cnn.com
I started fact-checking Trump 10 years ago. Here are 15 things I’ve learned | CNN Politics
Ten years ago this month, in my old job as Washington correspondent for the Toronto Star, I started what I believed would be a quick little side project: fact-checking underdog presidential candidate ...
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The techbros don't want you to see this trailer. Pass it on.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This serves as advertisement for Alex Gibney’s documentary, Musk, opening October 9. Pass it on.
hollywoodreporter.com
The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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david ghoul-bits @davidgolbitz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Gogel Bordello, tonight in Omaha, just looking at getting original $35 back. wl.eventim.us/event/gogol-...
wl.eventim.us
Buy tickets to Gogol Bordello in Omaha on September 25, 2026
Presales begin MM/DD at 10am. General on sale with Reserved Sections begins MM/DD at 10am.Doors at 7:00pmMain Room$35 Advance/$40 Day of Show$50 Balcony Reserved$70 Pitside East Reserved/Pitside West
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Remmelt 🛑 @artificialbodies.net · 25/09/2026
A hidden list of 100 abusers in Silicon Valley. Left unstated: some are abusing *men* Sam Altman used to date Peter Thiel, known for recruiting young men for sex (one died of suicide). Sam's sex parties are notorious for how hard they go, and the abuse. Three sources told me about this:
nypost.com
Silicon Valley ‘sex assault list’ with ‘over 100 ‘ names circulated, warning female tech workers of predators to avoid
“Some of them were very prominent names, you know? People who were famous investors. Businessmen who were in the scene”
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
So much of schools "responding to rape" is preventing the legal system from doing so. This is a report on seven adults who committed serious felonies for which there is a legal system to remind them and their pals that they are felonies.
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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 25/09/2026
1976's "Network" turns 50 this year. The pitch black satire of television always felt a little over the top, despite its star-studded cast's performances. But then social media came along and validated everything this movie warned us about--and more. We're all mad as hell now.
liberalcurrents.com
“Network” at 50: Now We’re All Mad as Hell
Paddy Chayefsky’s take on television captured the Long 1970s—and anticipated the rise of social media.
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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
ICE got permission to cut open a Cuban hunger striker’s stomach and insert a gastric tube to make him easier to forcefeed Nuremberg trials are too merciful for these monsters www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
ICE given permission to force-feed Cuban hunger striker with gastric tube
Exclusive: court orders seen by Guardian show agency given approval to fit Texas detainee with tube without his consent
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/09/2026
New in PN: @ninajankowicz.com on the golden age of disinformation “I’m not optimistic about us clawing back from this unless there’s serious rethinking of our systems, and frankly, regulation of these social media platforms that are making us such passive and uncurious consumers of information."
publicnotice.co
Nina Jankowicz on the golden age of disinformation
“Memory-holing is core to all of the narrative coups Republicans are achieving right now.”
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
it's insane they do this bend-over-backwards "critics say it raises questions" shit when the actual law just says "its illegal to put living people on currency"
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Kiana Mai @kianamai.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
FULLY ANIMATED EPISODE 1 IS OUT NOWWWW 🌟 youtu.be/6_7L80WaIuU?...
youtu.be
Pretty Pretty Please I Don’t Want to be a Magical Girl (EP.01 ANIMATED)
YouTube video by Kiana Khansmith
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
“The administration wrote to several grantees working on maternal health that while ‘maternal and infant health are important issues,’ their work ‘does not advance minority health with regards to OMH’s current priority areas.’” we don’t loathe these people enough.
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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Lol the United States was the only country of 165 which voted "no" to adopting an accurate map instead of the distorted Mercator projection. I'm guessing it was 30% inspired by an imperialist desire to keep Greenland looking big and 70% a racist desire to keep Africa small.
theguardian.com
UN votes to adopt new world map that shows Africa’s true scale
Togo-sponsored resolution called to phase out traditional map that depicts continent as similar size to Greenland
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Quild @quild.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
OHH SHIT, THE JEWS www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2012-0...
smbc-comics.com
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - 2012-03-25
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - 2012-03-25
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david ghoul-bits @davidgolbitz.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Absolutely. Accents are fascinating. It's been said that in the US, the Midwestern "accent" is the closest thing to neutral and that's why a lot of call centers are located around here. Before everyone started outsourcing call centers to places like India, anyway.
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david ghoul-bits @davidgolbitz.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I can say with certainty that not very many people from Omaha sound like you. 🤣
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The contempt of AI from insurance adjusters gets at a serious problem with AI: it still constantly makes up stuff and it can't be trusted with data. Here's state of the art LLMs (including just-released Astra & Fable 5.1) still confidently barfing up wrong answers a third of the time.
AA-Omniscience Accuracy vs. AA-Omniscience Index
AA-Omniscience Accuracy (higher is better) measures the proportion of correctly answered questions out of all questions, regardless of whether the model chooses to answer · AA-Omniscience IndexAA-Omniscience
Description: AA-Omniscience is a knowledge and hallucination benchmark that measures factual reliability, rewards precise knowledge, and penalizes incorrect guesses or hallucinations. It provides a detailed assessment of a model’s ability to distinguish known from unknowns across diverse knowledge domains.
Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.13029
Dataset: https://huggingface.co/datasets/ArtificialAnalysis/AA-Omniscience-Public
Implementation:
The benchmark consists of 6,000 questions covering 42 topics, including Business, Humanities and Social Sciences, Health, Law, Software Engineering, and Science, Engineering and Mathematics.
Models are scored using the AA-Omniscience Index, which assigns points for correct answers, subtracts points for hallucinated responses, and keeps abstentions neutral, rewarding abstentions over incorrect guesses
Each answer is graded as either CORRECT, INCORRECT, PARTIAL_ANSWER, or NOT_ATTEMPTED based on the model's response and the ground truth answer. GPT-5.6 Luna (medium) is used as the grading model
Intelligence Index Integration: AA-Omniscience contributes two components to the Intelligence Index: (1) Accuracy - the proportion of correct answers, weighted at 8% of the overall Index, and (2) Non-Hallucination Rate - calculated as 1 minus the hallucination rate, weighted at 4% of the overall Index (a 2:1 split of AA-Omniscience's 12% share).
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
History says the 9/11 attacks began at 8:46 a.m.—but that's not how most, from NYC officeworkers to the President, experienced it. Instead, the "attack" begins at 9:03, when we saw the second plane strike. I wrote abt the fascinating 17 minutes in between: www.nationalgeographic.com/history/grap...
nationalgeographic.com
The 17 Minutes That Changed America
The earliest moments of the September 11 attacks did not unfold the way we often remember. Here’s how those surreal 17 minutes changed America forever.
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Ethan Sacks @ethansacks.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Proud to have helped cast this fund-raiser for The Workers Circle on 9/10 - a funny and fun virtual table read of An American Tail with an amazing cast including @markhamillofficial.bsky.social & Jesse Eisenberg. Proceeds from tix go toward voter protection work: www.circle.org/events/worke...
circle.org
Workers Circle Virtual Benefit 2026: An American Tail — The Workers Circle
Join the Workers Circle for an unforgettable evening of storytelling and special guest performances inspired by the beloved animated classic An American Tail . Featuring Academy Award nominee Jes...
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Ibrahim Moustafa @ibrahimmoustafa.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
A thought: a lot of the comics men outed as problematic for 1 reason or another are almost always guys who have disengaged w/the community that helped make them They rarely participate in charity work, rarely use their platform to signal boost causes, rarely invest in their local IRL community 1/6
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Mark Crail @markcrail.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
theguardian.com
Rich people more likely to steal children’s sweets, finds Ig Nobel prize-winning study
We round up the winners at awards for achievements that ‘first make people laugh and then make them think’
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Griff "Grza" Sombke @grza.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Remember, the smol bean CEO of Flock was out here last week talking about how we need to turn the temperature down and how everybody's got Flock all wrong, and that that's actually rain on your head... Flock Taught Cops How to Surveil No Kings Protesters www.404media.co/flock-taught...
404media.co
Flock Taught Cops How to Surveil No Kings Protesters
A Flock webinar teaches police how to surveil protests, fireworks shows, parades, bike races, and more.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Uh what? www.newsweek.com/allison-guer...
newsweek.com
Woman who exposed FBI official for working with Russian oligarch found dead
A judge praised Allison Guerriero for her "extraordinary contributions" to counterespionage ops on behalf of the United States.
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david ghoul-bits @davidgolbitz.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Oof
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Dan Ancona @danancona.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Real mystery why basically everyone’s grumpy about the economy
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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
*If this was an Iranian cyberwar attack, would anybody frankly tell us "that was an Iranian cyberwar attack" #AmericanAI #down #simultaneous
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david ghoul-bits @davidgolbitz.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This would have been a very different Breakfast Club.
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Once again, Roberts wants to have his cake & eat it, too. He wants to be seen a neutral arbitrator outside the political sphere without allowing evidence that would permanently shatter that illusion to come to light. He wants to be seen as a public servant while eschewing all attendant requirements.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
That is an incidence rate of… 0.00547% The voter fraud allegations you’ve been sold are blatantly and provably false.
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Pablo Torre @pablo.show · 03/09/2026
Accountability for the wealthiest people on Earth is hard to come by. Thank you for believing in the power of independent journalism to accomplish it. (And, yes, more to come.) www.pablo.show/p/it-happened
pablo.show
It Happened.
EPISODE 423: The biggest punishment in NBA history.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
In other words, hundreds of federal agents are being diverted away from their normal jobs and instead told to find needles in a haystack — all to find evidence for Trump's predetermined conclusions. It's a great time to be a criminal in Trump's America.
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david ghoul-bits @davidgolbitz.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Not sure who's playing whom. All-star cast, though.
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josh boo-erman 👻 @bosh.worstpossible.world · 02/09/2026
i want to know that the people i watch are real actors. i want to know that the words i'm reading were written by an author. i want to know that the strokes on a canvas were painted by a real human. i simply refuse to believe that the vast majority of people do not also feel this way
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The Verge @theverge.com · 02/09/2026
As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.
theverge.com
There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series
You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.
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david ghoul-bits @davidgolbitz.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The pup looks dubious.
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
When there are multiple stories about data centers simply building gas turbines without permits, PROVING they can’t be trusted, you’d be a fool to trust them. This is not paranoia, it’s pragmatism.
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