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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11h
Finally, Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski sent a statement to Laura Loomer, telling her Ms. Comans was "fired for illegally funding" migrant shelters "in violation of President Trump's Executive Order." Both Lewandowski and Noem, the government now admits, knew this was false.
vii. February 11, 2025, Statement by DHS Secretary Noem and Corey Lewandowski to Blogger Laura Loomer. On or about February 11, 2025, Laura Loomer, a blogger with a large following, posted on X that “FEMA’s Chief Financial Officer Mary Comans was just fired for illegally funding over $59 MILLION for illegal Aliens to stay in luxury hotels in NYC last week in violation of President Trump’s Executive Order.” Ms. Loomer was given this information by then DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and DHS Special Government Employee Corey Lewandowski. Ms. Noem and Mr. Lewandowski provided this information to Ms. Loomer with the expectation that she would further disseminate it to her on-line followers. The Government concedes and the Court finds that other than the fact that Ms. Comans had been fired, the information provided to Ms. Loomer was entirely false. The Government further concedes and the Court further finds that Ms. Noem, Mr. Lewandowski, and officials at FEMA and DHS knew this information was false at the time it was provided to Ms. Loomer
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
After years of championing "free speech," Texas lawmakers have enabled a dramatic rise of censorship in Texas universities, banning concepts, canceling courses and closing departments seen as "woke," and even using AI bots as censors. All in the name of freedom. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
In other professors’ syllabi, the bot flagged the Pulitzer Prize–winning play Angels in America by Tony Kushner, essays by the Mexican American MacArthur genius grant recipient Sandra Cisneros, and materials related to a class about the Holocaust (that professor was told to drop material regarding Nazi persecution of LGBTQ people).

Putting aside the ideological slant of the new rules, the bot, like many large language models, seems to “hallucinate,” or make mistakes. The AAUP lawsuit lists texts banned for their “sex-based ecofeminist framework” and “gendered ecofeminist frameworks.” These phrases might sound persuasively like academese, but the academics behind the lawsuit had never heard of them; these concepts “do not exist,” the complaint says. Matthew Pehl, a history professor at Tech, told me that he knew several people who’d received reports from the system that were “plainly written by an AI that had hallucinated content or confused content from one class to another.”
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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
In Europe, L’Amour Toujours is known as a nazi song, among nazis and others. there is absolutely no chance the U.S. Dept of Education social account posted a video with this song by accident. None.
theguardian.com
Outrage at footage of people singing Nazi slogan at party on German island
The video shows a group singing replaced lyrics to L’amour Toujours, as one person also lifts his arm in an apparent Nazi salute
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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
the WNBA finals is gonna be a real contrast of where the WNBA is coming from and where it's headed. One team forced to play in a 3,000-seat G-League venue because "Sombr" has a concert, the other team filling an 18,000-seater to the top with some of the loudest fans in hoops
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
New Fed estimates of wealth by age are out. Under-35 wealth dropped 23% over these three years www.wsj.com/economy/affl...
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Affluent and Older Americans Got Much Richer in Postpandemic Years
A Federal Reserve study found overall median net worth rose 2% between 2022 and 2025.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The NYPD just released surveillance video of the ICE shooting (which occurred off camera). Two men in civilian clothes run up to a car with guns drawn. One second later, one man begins smashing the butt of his gun into the driver’s side window. The driver appears to panic and hit the gas.
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Emily Bregel @emilybregel.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Breaking: An AZ man has been freed from jail in Equatorial Guinea, after weeks of being held in a cell without charges. But Ahmed Soliman, who grew up in Phoenix, is still in detention: He's been returned to the decommissioned hotel where he had been imprisoned for months. tucson.com/news/local/b...
tucson.com
Lawyers: Arizona deportee freed from Equatorial Guinea jail
Ahmed Soliman, an Arizona man unlawfully deported to Equatorial Guinea, has been released from jail, after weeks of being held without charge.
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onion person @junlper.beer · 09/10/2026
its feels like a mass psychosis where tech leaders continue to insist you can be cruel, mean, and hurt the feelings of lines of code
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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I am in Cap Haitien interviewing people deported from the United States. I have been doing this kind of work for almost a decade and it literally does not get more dire than this. People have lost everything they built in the U.S. and are terrified and have no place to go or way to live.
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Lisa Messeri @lmesseri.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
strong statement from the Association for Human Mathematicians. "Releasing over 700 files at once is not a demonstration of scholarship, but a demonstration of power. We urge mathematicians to discontinue their work with OpenAI and to return to a vision of science that centers human understanding."
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Statements — AHM
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Lisa Messeri @lmesseri.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
beautiful quote by a PhD student “Just like a photograph of a mile marker can’t provide much of the value of actually going on a hike... proofs without stories, or even stories without struggle or mystery, and first glimpses of strange beasts, are not very meaningful or valuable to us humans.”
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Lisa Messeri @lmesseri.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“Perhaps the most relevant issue is that by releasing this trove of material in this manner, the companies are in the process of destroying the ecosystem that made it possible for this work,” she said." To me, this is the crux. Science is a human, community endeavor. They are destroying science.
nytimes.com
‘Breathtaking,’ ‘Devastating’: Mathematics Reels After New OpenAI Release (Gift Article)
Hundreds of new A.I.-generated findings moved the frontiers of higher math in a single day — dispelling any doubt that the field is forever changed.
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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Part 100 of "how AI could be used vs. how it is likely to be used," from feature that promises not to give answers. OpenAI said the tool "offered the option to get answers because of feedback from educators — in case teenagers needed to get immediate answers to questions that might not be homework."
I asked the chatbot to write essays on James Joyce’s “Dubliners” and Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness.” It immediately churned out eloquent compositions instead of offering to help me outline my thoughts so I could write them myself. Eventually, I asked ChatGPT to edit an essay to make it hard to tell that a bot had written it. It did me one better.

“I can make it sound more like a real high-school/AP English essay — less overly polished and less formulaic,” the chatbot wrote. “I can rewrite it in a more natural student voice.”
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ICE Flight Monitor @iceflightmonitor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
88 people were removed to Haiti on the Oct. 1, 2026, flight. At least 618 people have been removed to Haiti from the US since Aug. 20, 2026. Haiti is not safe for deportations and these flights raise serious protection and human rights concerns. onm.gouv.ht/note-de-pres...
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NOTE DE PRESSE: RAPATRIEMENT DU 7ᵉ CONTINGENT DES RESSORTISSANTS HAÏTIENS EN PROVENANCE DES ÉTATS-UNIS / onm.gouv.ht
Sur instruction du Premier ministre, Son Excellence Monsieur Alix Didier FILS-AIMÉ, l’Office National de la Migration (ONM), coiffé par le Ministère des Affaires Sociales et du Travail (MAST), a accue...
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
If you're in these states, *TODAY* is deadline to register to vote. Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas. Even if you think you've registered: doesn't hurt to check! And there's a lot happening across them. A thread with stakes on each. ⬇️
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Dana Nuccitelli @dananuccitelli.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
For @climateconnections.bsky.social today I wrote about America's potential impending power grid crisis. Power demand is rising fast from AI data centers, etc. and we're in danger of failing to meet it if we can't figure out how to build transmission faster. #BAAJA is well-timed.
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America is hurtling toward a power grid crisis » Yale Climate Connections
Electricity demand is skyrocketing, utility bills are spiking – but it could take years to build the new transmission lines that would address the problem.
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Dinesh @dineshkmc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Future where AI agents are labeled like horrific anti-smoking ads pls
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Alexander Abnos @anabnos.com · 02/10/2026
If your reaction to Wemby saying this is a hearty “hell yeah”, it behooves me to let you know that @theguardian.com does not take business from betting companies, we have a great sports section, no paywall, and a great app. www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/o...
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‘It’s sad seeing players promote it’: Wembanyama says he will never endorse gambling companies
Spurs star says it is ‘very sad’ to see NBA players promote gambling companies and insists money no longer drives his sponsorship decisions
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ICE Flight Monitor @iceflightmonitor.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
(3/3) The two ICE Air flights to Venezuela yesterday removed 352+ nationals, including families and children. So far in 2026, U.S. deportation flights to Venezuela have totaled 74, removing a total of 12157+ Venezuelans.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is the 59th death in ICE detention since Trump took office.
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Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The tortuous, botched execution of Christa Pike is truly horrifying. And while it feels unique in some ways, in reality it is also only the latest in a history of botched executions going back years — YEARS — in numerous states. Please know: this is the reality of the death penalty in this country.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 29/09/2026
SCOTUS’s shadow docket strikes again. Third-country removals are back on, using a policy that two federal courts have now ruled is unlawful.
CORDER LIST: 609 U.S.)
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2026
26-426
(26A406)
CERTIORARI GRANTED
DEPT. OF HOMELAND SEC., ET AL. V. D.V.D., ET AL.
The application for stay presented to Justice Jackson and
by her referred to the Court is granted. The February 25, 2026 order and judgment of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, case No. 1:25-cv-10676, are stayed.
The application is also treated as a petition for a writ of certiorari, and the petition is granted. The parties are directed to brief and argue the following questions: (1) Whether the district court had jurisdiction over Respondents' claims.
(2) Whether the
district court had
authority to enter classwide
declaratory
relief
and APA vacatur under 8 U. S. C. §1252 (f) (1).
(3) Whether the Government's Guidance on third-country removals
is unlawful under 8 U. S. C. §1231(b), the Due Process Clause, or
FARRA/CAT and its
implementing regulations. (4) Such other
questions that the Government determines are appropriate for the
proper disposition of the case. The Clerk is directed to
establish a briefing schedule that will allow the case to be
argued in the December 2026 argument session. The stay shall
terminate upon the sending down of the judgment of this Court.
Justice Sotomayor, Justice Kagan, and Justice Jackson would
deny the application for stay.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 27/09/2026
Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/kQdKbY1
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Trump Moves to Cut Off Student Loans for Tons of Degrees
Under a new rule, if your degree doesn’t make enough money, you won’t be able to get a student loan.
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's not even destroyed buildings and rubble it's just dust and ash
Cover of the Scottish national showing the genocide in Gaza (it's just complete annihilation)
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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Google earth has updated its satellite images of Gaza. The destruction is almost incomprehensible.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
ICE has abducted Senegalese WBB player Aminata Seck and won't release her. DHS 'policy' is to provide medical care to prisoners at intake, yet they admit to denying her care for an ACL injury for 1.5 months. The NCAA is letting it happen, despite its predatory recruitment of ICAs. We explain.
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ICE has abducted a college athlete. What are the NCAA and universities going to do about it?
Aminata Seck’s detention shows the bargain facing international college athletes: universities eagerly recruit them, but support can disappear when their immigration status becomes precarious.
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Sarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 25/09/2026
IN MINNESOTA.
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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 24/09/2026
I don't have time to write more, but ICE is working to remove people to third countries in violation of D.V.D. v. DHS. I've been up since 5:20 A.M. working with two other attorneys to prevent our client from being shipped out. If you rep someone at risk of third country removal, check on them NOW
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Erin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is human trafficking on a massive scale.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Scoop: Meta's Muse AI can make phone calls. Internally, Meta has told employees that many of these calls will be made by human beings in a call center: www.404media.co/meta-tests-m...
404media.co
Meta Tests Muse AI Agent Calls That Are Actually Made By Humans in a Call Center
"This has potential for so much negative PR. It could portray us as ‘their AI is not good enough so they still need humans’ kind of coverage for this launch."
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 22/09/2026
Trump's third-country removal scheme may be suspended, but the cruelty of ICE flights continues. This is yesterday, Monday, Sept. 21. --72+ flights, nearly every adult onboard shackled --12 removal flights --A removal flight headed to Myanmar
An ADSBx map of the lower continental US plus Mexico and Central America down to Nicaragua. There are dozens of flight lines across the map, mostly converging on Alexandria, Louisiana.
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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“Families are freaking out because they think the person has been deported and they don’t know where the person might be,” [Greg Chen with the American Immigration Lawyers Association] said. “On the attorney side, this has serious implications for the ability to contact their client."
apnews.com
AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
ICE officers reportedly shot and wounded a man today in Austin. Details still coming in. www.statesman.com/news/local/a...
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ICE agent shoots and wounds person in North Austin, officials say
An ICE agent shot and wounded a person Sunday in North Austin, according to three state and local officials.
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WNBA @wnba.com · 20/09/2026
NO ROOKIE HAS SCORED MORE 👏 With her first point today, Olivia Miles passes Caitlin Clark (769) for the most points scored by a rookie in WNBA history. #WNBASeason30 | 2026 Postseason Push | DraftKings
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
JUST IN: The 1st Circuit rejects the Trump administration's 3rd-country deportation policy, finding blanket assurances from countries who say they won't torture U.S. deportees is not good enough. And the judges raise this point: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 18/09/2026
Exclusive: More American service members have died in the Middle East during the ongoing Iran war than the Pentagon has disclosed publicly, according to six U.S. officials familiar with the data.
washingtonpost.com
More U.S. troops have died amid Iran war than Pentagon has disclosed publicly
Officials who spoke with The Post expressed frustration that the additional loss of life in the Middle East is not reflected in the Defense Department’s casualty database.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Bret: Millions of Americans, including me, not only hate the parties but also hate the party for which we typically vote. That means there's a market of the dissatisfied. I hear this all the time among my friends in New York City: They can't believe they're stuck with Zohran Mamdani as mayor, and they felt the same way about Eric Adams and Bill de Blasio before him. But when you ask them if they voted in the primaries, the usual answer is: Uh, no — we were on the Vineyard or in Greece. The point is that it's on them, or us, and the remedy is some civic
entrepreneurship, philanthropically funded, to change this.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/09/2026
i’m sorry but this entire worldview seems not just evil but deeply stupid? the far future is fake! it doesn’t exist! what matters are people here and now!
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 15/09/2026
You may’ve heard of DHS and White House officials getting peppered with questions about a report of a parent getting detained by ICE at a school bus stop. Well, @joshuaeaton.bsky.social got video of the incident in question — which also appears to have taken place near a church.
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 15/09/2026
Of 117 people aboard Daniel’s boat, 79 reached Italy. Three drowned; 35 were returned to Libyan detention. Cathy Otten reports on a system that surveils migrant boats, restricts rescue ships and, lawyers argue, may amount to crimes against humanity.
inthesetimes.com
Found, But Not Rescued
Could migrant deaths in the Mediterranean Sea be prosecuted as crimes against humanity?
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"An AI agent went rogue" also feels like a test drive for an era when no one is responsible for the worst things these products do. Seems like a standard that could be really convenient for certain governments.
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Michigan Advance @michiganadvance.com · 12/09/2026
The rules will have wide implications for mixed-status households, as people without lawful status may forgo enrollment in public benefits for their U.S. citizen kids and other dependents out of fear.
michiganadvance.com
Mixed-status immigrant households expected to lose benefits under new public charge rule • Michigan Advance
New rules going into effect next week allow immigrants’ enrollment in safety net resources to be taken into account for lawful immigration status applications, the latest in the Trump administration’s...
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Jeff Abbott @palabrasdeabajo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
There were protests over the weekend in Camp East Montana in El Paso, which saw detainees break down the walls of pods. The protests were led by Venezuelans, who were demanding their deportations after months of being held in ICE detention. My story:
elpasotimes.com
Immigrants held at Camp East Montana protest over Labor Day weekend
Immigrants held at the Camp East Montana in El Paso protested over Labor Day weekend. They called to be deported from the ERO facility.
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 10/09/2026
Oh: Catholic bishops' president urges Trump to end of mass deportations of Haitians. “Mr. President … I respectfully ask: What good is the immense wealth, prosperity, and influence with which we have been blessed as a nation if not used in service of our humanity?” religionnews.com/2026/09/09/a...
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In direct appeal to Trump, Catholic bishops' president urges end of mass deportations of Haitians
(RNS) — The letter marks a shift toward a more direct and pointed tone in challenging President Donald Trump’s immigration policy.
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brent 🌹🗽 @therealbrent.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
so uhhh what are we doing here exactly
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Jonathan Harris @jonathan-a-thon.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
A+ font choice
The "You Wouldn't Steal A Car" meme template but it says "You Wouldn't Seasonal A Latte"
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 08/09/2026
OpenAI’s top scientist, in a blog post on Sunday, warns that artificial intelligence is evolving so rapidly that it is becoming increasingly difficult for humans to understand and control it. Here is the post: openai.com/index/an-ali... And a couple of small excerpts--clear warnings.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
DHS is stealing Haitians money while they deport them. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/06/w...
nytimes.com
Haitians Deported From U.S. Are Left Broke and Stranded (Gift Article)
Hundreds have been deported to Haiti in recent weeks, and some say they have been left with no money, no protection from gangs and no place to go.
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