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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 21h

You can kill as many people as you want, but you target a beautiful precious data center? The one that hosted all 40,000 Sexy Ladies For Ken Paxton accounts?

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Dave Mandl @dmandl.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

This article tries to make a case for "all politicians" being under threat, when the vast majority of this violence comes from the far right, whose rhetoric and actions have fueled the trend (exponentially boosted by Trump). No mention of the environment or the roots of all this. It "just happened."

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Katie Clark Gray @katiecgray.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Curious whether there will be mention that TPUSA helped fund the J6 riots, which feel like a pretty important condition setter in the whole "violence against elected officials" thing.

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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 23h

every elected official they interview in this article, except derrick van orden who they lead with for some reason, had their death threats instigated & encouraged by donald trump. the country doesn't have an incivility problem, it has a maga death cult problem

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 22h

Uh oh, did someone’s website and personal account experience a big drop in activity after Ukraine hit a Russian data center?

Elon Musk: “Zelensky has gone too far”

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2109033017184338141

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Your occasional reminder that the Founding Fathers were not psychic democracy angels descended from Heaven but problem children spot-welding a first of its kind system together while both (often) being drunk and (always) hating each other.

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 10/10/2026

please, my agents, they’re very rogue

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 09/10/2026

our colleagues from the tech workers union are hosting a two day summit this weekend. I can guarantee you it'll will be much more informative and real than the actual government summit we have a line-up of stellar speakers. join us tomorrow and Sunday www.datacwu.ie/ai-counter-s...

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AI Counter Summit | DATA Ireland

Workers’ AI Counter Summit Become A Member Download the Agenda Here AI Counter Summit Registration10th – 11th October 2026Click Here Who gets to shape the future? On 16th October, the Irish Government...

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Melissa Chan @melissakchan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Oh how can I forget: ISIS was also into filming executions and posting them online.

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Lynn Sacco @urbanexile.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Hello JD, the Catholic Bishops are calling! “The public execution even of one who has done grave harm will only further undermine the moral fabric of our nation and be a blight on the conscience of its people,” he said. www.vaticannews.va/en/church/ne...

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US Archbishop Coakley: Livestreaming execution promotes a ‘culture of death’ - Vatican News

Archbishop Paul Coakley, President of the US Bishops’ Conference, expresses shock over the planned livestreamed execution of Nidal Hassan, warning ...

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Douglas K @dougkaye.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I'm amazed the NYT is not credulously parroting the OpenAI marketing. Bravo ! One mathematician characterized the dump as a denial-of-service attack on mathematics. But, it will help OpenAI's IPO, so there's that.

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Douglas K @dougkaye.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I do believe this is the single most important point to be made about LLMs - we assign meaning to words, regardless of how the words were generated. Humans have intent and meaning to communicate, LLMs give us what amounts to a nicely arranged bouquet of flowers. Pretty. Maybe it's ikebana ?

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Anthropic is out with new nonsense about Claude (or the collection of models called Claude) deserving moral consideration and/or be able to feel distress, so my inbox is filling up with journos asking me to comment. I've also got a day job, so here is a brief set of public comments on this: >>

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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

There is nothing more mysterious to me than the science of what you are supposed to do about car tires

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Downside: The US now has government goon squads, and deploys them to try to intimidate voters into voting the way the president wants. Upside: They don’t have nearly enough goons. Not even close. They’re hoping fear will make up for that big shortfall, but it won’t.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Outside the pandemic, U.S. information-sector employment is now at its lowest level in more than a decade. BLS data shows 2.739M jobs in September, down ~12% from the 2022 peak. The entire post-pandemic hiring boom has now been erased. I expected AI to cause Big Tech to shrink but not all tech. 😞

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Carolyn Fiddler @cfidd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I dunno seems pretty un-American y'all

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

They don’t understand the fine art of extraordinary claims, burden of proof, prior work, attribution, etc. but they do understand spamming the reviewer. Normally that gets a door slammed in your face such that you can only publish on bulletin boards. Unfortunately money makes them harder to ignore.

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Steve Huntsman @stevehuntsman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

They really are trying to get around the fact that math is about having reproducible mental structures by preventing folks from participating in the point of the enterprise, which is to actually mentally reproduce these structures.

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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

the tech industry is about to invent books

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We created gyms because modern day work no
longer required physical activity. Without exercise,
our muscles atrophy.
I predict we'll need gyms for our brains too, once Al
starts doing our knowledge work.
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tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 05/10/2026

new newsletter, laying out in probably far, far, far too much detail how yudkowsky and the weird ideological commitments of ai safety eventually led to OpenAI and Anthropic massively overtraining their models on cybersecurity and being shocked at them "going rogue"

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Tracing the rogue ideology of the frontier labs to their product choices

A drawing of Eliezer Yudkowsky as the Paperclip Optimizer that I commissioned back in 2016 and have an alarming number of chances to use since This is a...

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026

There are GOP politicians who are not pedophiles or personally massively corrupt, but all of them are in submissive thrall to a president who *is* a corrupt pedophile, and who has, by virtue of his position, made the party into his own image. It now protects and valorizes immorality and corruption.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Truly incredible that this is how the media is choosing to eulogize the longest-serving Republican Speaker of the House in US history, who was a serial sexual abuser of children. For all the talk about "deep state" plots to abuse children, no one even remembers this case.

From CBS News: "Former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, who represented Illinois for two decades in Congress and was later jailed for violating banking laws, has died."

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It's fascinating to learn how many more kids die in ATV accidents every year than in e-bike accidents, then observing that there is a moral panic about kids riding e-bikes but not about kids riding ATVs.

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Again: for Black Women, in particular, the ability to chose, a time and place to reproduce is a function of liberty. The most fundamental fact of enslavement was the Black Women had no control over their reproduction; in fact, their ability to reproduce was a key source of other’s wealth.

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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

My Minnesota friends have already seen this, but I keep thinking about it and want more people outside our state to, too.

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 05/10/2026

You know a pet peeve of mine? I keep seeing think pieces and videos, even from progressives, about how at some point AI will achieve sentience and be worthy of moral consideration. We can't even give every human on this planet moral consideration.

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The Cable Denier Conspiracy spread via telegram, which I argue marks the beginning of cranks on social media just saying any damn thing.

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The first Transatlantic Telegraph cable failed after a month because goddamn Lord Kelvin juiced it with 2000 volts, so a whole weird conspiracy cropped up that subsea telegraph was impossible and James Buchanan and Queen Victoria just... faked their cable communication.

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Hot take: I don't think social media made people dumber. We've been dumb this whole time. It's just that you used to have to have a job that people sent their dumb letters to, to notice. This made "Engaging with fools" an occupational hazard rather than the 24/7 experience it is presently.

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tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 05/10/2026

every time I think about this it cracks me up more. "we have this very obliging text-producing robot that can control command line tools, let's feed it an overwhelmingly massive corpus of evidence that there's almost always a sneaky hacker way to do something that's not the normal way O NO"

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Chronic Illness Humor @chronicillness.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Artist: Roz Chast from The New Yorker

The image shows a black-and-white cartoon titled "The Mind-Body Problem" drawn by Roz Chast for The New Yorker.
It depicts a person slouching on a couch who says "No" in a speech bubble while their mind or head, leaning back, says "Get up."

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Dan Visnovsky @dvisnovsky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

How this information finds me

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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A conservative dark money group is running Prop 132 asking voters to put more Coloradans in prison for fentanyl. Is it backed by people who make money off private prisons? Don’t know. It’s dark money.

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nothingface @peacesells.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

some people are so used to politics being essentially a tv show to them that the idea of actual policies having consequences that manifest in the real world is completely incomprehensible to them

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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 01/10/2026

How the fuck is this “mind-boggling?” No one wants to come in here out of a very understandable fear they’ll be either shot or thrown into a concentration camp by ICE.

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Kelly @justkelly.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

She was doxxed by a Chi Phi alum who implored his followers to “help a Chi Phi.” Just in case anyone thought that organization was remotely redeemable.

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 30/09/2026

Proud of the CDCers who fought to get this vital info out! 30% of our workforce is gone. Heartbroken by the loss of brilliant scientists, institutional knowledge, & frankly my friends, colleagues, & mentors. An understaffed CDC harms the public & leaves the US vulnerable. Rebuilding will take years

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‘Zombified’ C.D.C., Hobbled by Cuts, Struggles to Fulfill Scientific Mission (Gift Article)

The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control.

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Don “Dr Mabuse” Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @dbcurren.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“It’s too early to know whether we have yet seen the Bear Stearns moment of the #AIbubble, but we should be on guard against another bad moment of the housing bubble: the #bankbailouts.” deanbaker22.substack.com/p/if-ai-is-c...

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If AI Is Crashing, the Story Should be Jail In, Not Bail Out

We shouldn’t get fooled again

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Colton the fish sp💀💀ker🐟🪴🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I got a kick out of the way this dipper was chucking leaves off this rock like it just hates holiday decorations. They are such fun birds with boundlessly entertaining feeding behavior. 🪶

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Upton Sinclair remains undefeated

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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Russell Brand, who's awaiting trial in London next month on rape and sexual assault charges, will moderate a panel at DC's MAHA summit tomorrow on reforming a U.S. health agency

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