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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026

Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 6h

Kind of a buried lede in the results of this Supreme Court approval rating poll from Marquette: Overall support for Supreme Court expansion, which even Democratic politicians were dismissing as "radical" just a few years ago, is now at 53 percent today.marquette.edu/2026/09/marq...

Proposal Favor or oppose
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Enforce strict ethics code for justices 89 10
Limited terms for justices 79 21
Increase number of justices 53 47
Marquette Law School Poll, national survey: Sept. 2-9, 2026

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Dawn Xiana Moon @dawnxianamoon.bsky.social · 10h

Chicago folks: Experience a burlesque circus speakeasy featuring performers who headline international festivals! I'm producing + performing in this, and it is going to be a sultry, spooky, silly time. Also: Shrimp burlesque. 🦐 For real. (It went viral.) Join us! RaksInferno.com/shows

Raks Inferno show poster featuring me as the Evil Queen from Snow White. Friday, Oct. 9 at 7pm. Newport Theater, Chicago.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 13h

The American white collar workforce started working from home three days a week for like six months a year into COVID and executives so thoroughly lost their minds over this that they installed Trump II. If anything, AI will create the 7-day workweek.

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Sarah Szalavitz💡 @dearsarah.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

All that “High T” really has gone to his head—& bootlickinhg must be dizzying? But ffs Baier could’ve had Bezos clarify if he prefers SI to AI because it’s somehow a problem that 1) “artificial” is unflattering to eugenics plagiarism machines or 2) that humans aren’t attracted to “artificial”?

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 13h

Oh good. Real-life Thought Police. Exactly what I always wanted. #MakeOrwellFictionAgain

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Sarah Szalavitz💡 @dearsarah.bsky.social · 22h

It was rad to appear in Vogue (& so random!) but I’d have never done it I’d ever have thought that man would/could ever be POTUS? But Idk if she’d have been totally different if she wasn’t getting her 1st Vogue cover because of the awful man she was marrying? It was a lot—& no one was pretending?

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Sarah Szalavitz💡 @dearsarah.bsky.social · 22h

This has not been my experience in other contexts, with rich or famous folks? And folks who seek to be famous & aren’t yet, at least feign interest? But idk maybe she was having jitters & wearing her wedding dress made it real? She knew Trump would tactlessly show up—it was shot at his tacky🏠.

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Sarah Szalavitz💡 @dearsarah.bsky.social · 22h

So (apologies if this sounds like I’m bragging?) by that point in my life & also at that point, I was not unfamiliar with very famous people? She was not famous then—& while she was polite to a fault, she was not friendly & very not interested…& kept herself very separate from the shoot?

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Sarah Szalavitz💡 @dearsarah.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Thinking about how out of body & out of mind I felt 3 years ago… & re-reading posts that became a part of my brain in the time vacuum that followed… For me, Soros’s 2007 piece was immediately inextricable from 10/7? 😱😭

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Sarah Szalavitz💡 @dearsarah.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

May the legacies of folks like Hayim Katsmam & Yovached Lifshitz endure & continue to inspire us all to demand an egalitarian future that includes us all. bsky.app/profile/dear... bsky.app/profile/dear...

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Sarah Szalavitz💡 @dearsarah.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Someday maybe I won’t still think about this piece every day? And how few folks (um understandably) understand even now? bsky.app/profile/dear...

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Sarah Szalavitz💡 @dearsarah.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Three years later, Bibi is trying to revoke the citizenship of Israeli filmmakers—& it’s not even being reported that Jewish people who share my beliefs are being denied their “right of return” & their identities as Jewish people. bsky.app/profile/dear...

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Sarah Szalavitz💡 @dearsarah.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

“I keep thinking that..someone will be killed because of me. And I cannot live with that.” Roni Stahl Lupo “Any moment I may not be in this world,” Mosab Abu Toha said. bsky.app/profile/dear...

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Sarah Szalavitz💡 @dearsarah.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

“and in this time of dark grief, I cling to the one thing I have left to hold on to: my humanity.” bsky.app/profile/dear...

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Sarah Szalavitz💡 @dearsarah.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

“We cannot cross until we carry each other.” bsky.app/profile/dear...

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Sarah Szalavitz💡 @dearsarah.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

“the agony of knowing that they’re already dead no matter what any of us feel or think or say” bsky.app/profile/dear...

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Sarah Szalavitz💡 @dearsarah.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Who could’ve ever predicted what impact excluding women & BIPOC would have on AI? A thread running from 2015-2023… x.com/dearsarah/st...

“yes...which is why the OpenAI team's lack of diversity is so discomfiting....” in response to paul graham’s “If AI actually works, it matters a lot who develops it. goo.gl/yRJ2HP” on 12/15/2015

https://x.com/dearsarah/status/677014790787723265?s=46&t=_eCGsSFzev6cTHSoLq5hfQ

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Sarah Szalavitz💡 @dearsarah.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The AI industry is booming. Women are getting left behind Women hold just a fraction of new AI jobs & are overrepresented in roles with high risk of AI disruption www.theguardian.com/technology/2... SHOCKING. Who could’ve ever predicted thats what eugenics plagiarism machines would do?

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The AI industry is booming. Women are getting left behind

Women hold just a fraction of new AI jobs but are overrepresented in roles with high risk of AI disruption

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Sarah Szalavitz💡 @dearsarah.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

People of All Ages Join French Student Protests, as Movement Broadens Union members, parents, teachers and others took part in mass demonstrations around the country, backing student demands that the government invest more in schools. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/w... #solidarity

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People of All Ages Join French Student Protests, as Movement Broadens

Union members, parents, teachers and others took part in mass demonstrations around the country, backing student demands that the government invest more in schools.

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Sarah Szalavitz💡 @dearsarah.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Damning New Poll Delivers Historic Blow to GOP Ahead of Midterms www.thedailybeast.com/damning-new-... maybe polls are BS…but otoh pundits also abruptly stopped Biden bashing? And this is even more impressive, given that msm pubs, platforms & algorithms—except Disney—are all owned by Trumpsters!

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Damning New Poll Delivers Historic Blow to Republicans

The Democrats reach level not seen since the start of Barack Obama’s first presidency.

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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I was told Zohran Mamdani would instantly turn New York into a crime-ridden hellscape. Yet murders are down almost 20%, year over year. 203 people have been slain, about 22.5 per month. In 1990, that average was *251 per month.* NYC has never been this safe.

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✨️intelligentwat✨️ BRING BACK ŁINK @zinrock.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

this is beyond infuriating. I don't understand people's cruelty and greed, bc that's exactly what this comes down to. 140k evictions. insanity.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I spent a year watching school administrators do their jobs—and interviewing the students most impacted. I spoke to @thecut.com in a long-form Q&A about what I saw. Mainly, a system designed to protect perpetrators and punish victims in each and every case.

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The Reason Why Colleges Still Fail to Address Sexual Violence

The “Cornell Seven” case highlights what’s wrong with Trump’s Title IX rules — and how the system was always designed to fail.

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 06/10/2026

Anyway, OUP is a disaster now and I may never get over it. buymeacoffee.com/ayjay/the-la...

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The Last Word on ... all this — ayjay

Post by ayjay

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Sarah Szalavitz💡 @dearsarah.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Trump putinously Offers Up 2 US Cities for destruction: “They can take out a city—let ’em take out Los Angeles, let ’em take out San Diego. That’s—this is a very small price to pay,” www.thedailybeast.com/trump-offers... 😱🫠so…are folks betting on Kalshi that POTUS will post AI videos of🇮🇷 bombing LA?

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Trump Offers Up Two U.S. Cities in Bonkers War Talk

The president disturbingly suggested that seeing two American cities “taken out” would be a “small price to pay.”

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Trump Offers Up Two U.S. Cities in Bonkers War Talk

The president disturbingly suggested that seeing two American cities “taken out” would be a “small price to pay.”

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Last year, Chicagoan Marimar Martinez was shot **5 times** by a Border Patrol agent & all agents accounts were contradicted by evidence. Now she is suing the federal govt. Worth reading whole piece; agents cheered for shooter via celebratory texts (“beers on me") blockclubchicago.org/2026/10/05/m...

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Marimar Martinez Sues Feds A Year After Border Patrol Agent Shot Her 5 Times

A reconstruction of the shooting commissioned by Martinez’s legal team found agent Charles Exum was standing to the side of her car and was not in danger as he fired, her attorneys said.

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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

That's how it's done 👇

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I got really annoyed that so many stories about the "Cornell 7" case don't link to the underlying court documents. So I compiled the key filings from Jane Doe's civil suit and from a separate suit brought by one of the accused. Read them here: annabower.substack.com/p/read-the-c...

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Read the “Cornell 7” Documents

I compiled key court filings from Jane Doe’s civil suit and a separate suit brought by one of the accused. Read them on Slip Opinion.

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Cynthia Rose @stillcham.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026

MSM framing be WILD.

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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 05/10/2026

the differences in sports across the pond is always interesting. look how the brits do bowling. totally different than how we do it

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Sarah Szalavitz💡 @dearsarah.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

How Everything Became Gambling www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/m... nonetheless #kalshification is not inevitable. Here, while these prediction markets have already bankrupted & corrupted too many, bans have already passed.

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How Everything Became Gambling

It’s not just DraftKings and Polymarket — the logic of gambling undergirds everything coming out of Silicon Valley.

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How Everything Became Gambling

It’s not just DraftKings and Polymarket — the logic of gambling undergirds everything coming out of Silicon Valley.

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Heraty Law @heratylaw.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

“Google Pushed AI Into Schools—and Even Students Say It’s Gone Too Far The risks of cognitive and emotional dependence, along with falling test scores, are fueling a backlash” the 15-year-old said: “When I was in a test and I couldn’t use AI, it was hard to think.” www.wsj.com/tech/ai/goog...

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Google Pushed AI Into Schools—and Even Students Say It’s Gone Too Far

The risks of cognitive and emotional dependence, along with falling test scores, are fueling a backlash.

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Sarah Szalavitz💡 @dearsarah.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The GOP says they hate communism. So why do they support Trump? From 2002 to 2024, 🇺🇸 had the least least state control. In 2025, the 1st year of Trump’s 2nd term, it dropped from 2nd place to 16th. www.theguardian.com/business/202... When Trump says “superintelligence,” he means “communism”.

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Republicans say they hate communists. So why do they like Donald Trump?

Trump supporters may be surprised to learn the state takeover of means of production is not driven by the left

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kay slater @kslater.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

don’t kill me but disciplinary and methodological differences are okay—good, even—especially when approaching consuming and complex social problems that require varying levels of tactical response

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026

remarkable piece of journalism. really worth reading.

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Republicans say they hate communists. So why do they like Donald Trump?

Trump supporters may be surprised to learn the state takeover of means of production is not driven by the left

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Stephanie Farr @farfarraway.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

There was no curbing Philadelphians’ enthusiasm at the first Philadelphia Parallel Parking Championship Saturday. Go Birds. www.inquirer.com/life/philade...

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Competition was tight at the first Philadelphia Parallel Parking Association Championship

Hundreds of backseat drivers gathered in Headhouse Plaza on Saturday to watch 14 people park their cars.

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Sarah Szalavitz💡 @dearsarah.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

😵‍💫Yes, AZ’s absurd laws encourage this—& what could be more American—but this story really has got everything! Arizona teens buy guns (some with counterfeit💵!), file off the serial numbers, then report the guns stolen, & sell them for 2X the price to VARIOUS cartels. & then brag about it on socials.

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Sarah Szalavitz💡 @dearsarah.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

🇺🇸High School Kids Are Selling Guns to Cartels Drawn by 💰& status, AZ teens are stealing or buying (& then reporting stolen!) guns destined for🇲🇽. AZ allows private gun sales without background checks or records www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/w... who could’ve ever predicted this? 500k guns a year!🫠

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American High School Students Are Selling Guns Bound for Cartels

Drawn by money and status, teenagers in Arizona are buying, stealing and selling weapons destined for criminal groups in Mexico.

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Sarah Szalavitz💡 @dearsarah.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

👏Federal Judge (in OK!!!) Rules 1) “use of ALPR Systems was an Unconstitutional Warrantless Search” & 2) Flock Search Was ‘Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance” that violates the 4th A & thus unconstitutional www.404media.co/federal-judg... This isn’t limited to Flock—expect Taser’s stock to drop?

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Federal Judge Rules a Flock Search Was ‘Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance’ and Unconstitutional

Flock’s nationwide network is quickly “approaching dragnet-type law enforcement practice” and the cop should have got a warrant, the judge wrote.

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nytimes.com

American High School Students Are Selling Guns Bound for Cartels

Drawn by money and status, teenagers in Arizona are buying, stealing and selling weapons destined for criminal groups in Mexico.

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