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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15h

Well, it’s a quick take, and no doubt data will come in, but it sure looks like based on today’s evidence that a lot of pro-Trump and pro-AfD bot work depends directly on Russian data centers.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

LOL, sure, return to X, where the white nationalist owner is telling people to put their credit card numbers into Grok prompts.

Nikita Bier
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The only group more insufferable than tech people is anti-tech bluesky users, who have been coming back to X in droves the last few weeks.

And they’re just discovering that the entire world got rich over the last two years while they were busy arguing with each other about politics and AI.

And they’re very, very angry.

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To buy stuff, you can just take a picture of your credit card, drop it in the chat and Grok @Bot will scour the Internet for the best deal on the item you want and order it

Note underneath it says "xAI explicitly warns users not to include personal information in prompts, yet credit card photos may contain such information.

Grok Bot's terms state that user data and credentials may be stored in its cloud environment and require human review for financial transactions."

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Micah @rincewind.run · 10/10/2026

if your agents are going to commit crimes, you are legally responsible if you cannot figure out how to prevent your agents from doing crimes, you’re going to have to choose between releasing them and protecting yourself from criminal liability imo this would do more for “ai safety” than a sex cult

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/10/2026

“Zelenskyy could’ve stopped this war many times, and he chose not to … he better damn well stop” — Trump is no longer trying to conceal that he’s fully on Putin’s side

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I can’t help but notice that ICE keeps claiming that people it shoots were trying to ram the agents with a car, and then video keeps proving that’s a lie.

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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

credit where credit is due, this is straight ahead factual and well written

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

ICE is a militia of serial abusers.

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James Wells @drjwells.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I could never have dreamed up a game like Expedition 33. Why would I want to play things tailored to what I can imagine?

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Simeon Schmauß @stim3on.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Six months have passed since the #ArtemisII mission and NASA has just released the reentry video from the Orion capsule! Here is a timelapse of the reentry, but be sure to check out the realtime version linked below! 🔭🧪

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 06/10/2026

Also, when it's trivially easy to get an LLM to disgorge entire large chunks of pilfered text from its training data, the argument that other uses are "transformative" are, well, not the slam dunk you might think they are

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 06/10/2026

He was still alive? Huh.

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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

MAGA Americans: Canada better not interfere in our midterms! Also MAGA Americans: here's why we think you should change your laws to make them more like ours.

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Bleddyn Bowen @bleddb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Ah yes, kick out the civilian professors who have spent entire careers studying and teaching war studies, strategy, and military theory, and bring in a civilian tech billionaire.

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Pete Hegseth appoints Elon Musk to US taskforce on future of warfare

A year after his explosive tenure at Doge, the SpaceX CEO is back in the Trump administration’s good graces

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Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Skipped the Nazis, huh.

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Tears in their eyes, grown men,

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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Saw the documentary NAZA, made in secret, with interviews of members of Israel’s intelligence services testifying and showing how they created a system to perpetrate genocide in Gaza. The filmmakers and their families have been threatened by Netanyahu himself. I wrote my thoughts here boxd.it/gvDEIR

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A ★★★★★ review of NAZA (2026)

Merely a film. A film that has led Netanyahu himself to threaten the citizenship and safety of its Israeli filmmakers and even their families, simply for the act of filming veterans of Israel’s intell...

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

If you make any sort of money off betting or are a sharp, they also just ban you lol

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

As someone with AuDHD, this can mean the difference between life or suicide. And they just decided people can wait *at least* 2 years. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

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NHS bodies in England impose two-year minimum wait for ADHD and autism assessments

Patient groups decry ‘scandalous’ delays as four integrated care boards take step due to soaring demand for diagnoses

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

and yet they always say, you can't possibly take war money and use it for health care, those are DIFFERENT THINGS

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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Look how fast he folds. Look how strong our cards are. Maybe it's time we played them. #cdnpoli

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The Onion @theonion.com · 21/09/2026

JD Vance Booed By Own Reflection In Mirror theonion.com/jd-vance-booed-by-own-…

JD Vance Booed By Own Reflection In Mirror
Image Calls VP ‘Loser’ Right To His Face

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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

In 2024, the US imported ~12 million metric tons of potassic fertilizers from Canada (hillnotes.ca/2025/06/05/p...) Specialized ships can carry ~60k metric tons, tho container ships <half that (www.sasktoday.ca/central/loca...) So we'd need at least 200 ships loaded from [checks notes] Belarus

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PoliticsJOE @politicsjoe.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"Your boss is a credulous dolt who will give your job to an AI that can't do it." The truth about AI is dumber than you think, according to Cory Doctorow. @doctorow.pluralistic.net

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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This is fucked! Toronto mayoral candidate Brad Bradford is using an Israeli AI app to create an army of snitches and reply-guys. The app finds valid criticism of the candidate on social media, gives you an AI-written reply to post, then gives you rewards

On Sept. 17, we were given another mission, this time targeting the social media platform X. It arrived as a text: “Hey! A new post just went up, and it’s waiting for you on Victory. Jump in, generate a comment with the AI button, drop a like, and share with friends — every action earns points.”

The task was named “Pushing Back on ‘Part of the Problem’ Attacks,” a reference to comments criticizing Bradford for inaction during his eight years on council.

One critic had replied to Bradford's post: “Haven't you been part of the municipal government for awhile, bradbrad? You're part of the problem lol.”

To push back, LogiVote's AI system had recommended seeding a counter-narrative.

The result, generated for us to post: “So tired of hearing the same excuses from city hall, while nothing changes. Brad, you’ve actually stood up for us — don’t let them say you haven’t tried. We need someone who won’t back down.”

The Victory App asked us to enter our X username to verify we complied and award us 25 in-app coins.

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Diana Chan McNally @dianachanmcnally.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

I’m running for City Council in Parkdale—High Park. I’m running because our neighbours deserve a councillor who has walked alongside them, fought for them, and knows how to turn community demands into real wins at City Hall. Join me at www.dianachanmcnally.ca.

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Diana Chan McNally for Parkdale—High Park

YouTube video by Diana Chan McNally

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

every day of my life I think about the people using “she” to describe this computer program who still need to be convinced to use it for trans women

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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is the part many Americans -- including the Bezosites at the Washington Post -- don't understand. Canadians don't see this just as a Trump thing. It's that America elected him twice, and the second time with an even bigger mandate. The problem we're addressing is America, not Trump.

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

a lot freaks me out about AI but 0% of my anxiety is about AGI. i think this is the part that freaks me out the most right now -- the many many indications that no one is at the wheel and no adults are present

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Aranock @aranock.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Talarico supports a nation wide ban on youth healthcare and as a canadian trans woman I think anyone calling for murdering the youngest members of my community in their country should listen to Lynch's advice about their heart. You think dead trans people is more acceptable than us saying fuck off.

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Aranock @aranock.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

And to the people I used to follow who can't comprehend people who hate your transmisogynistic birthday boy lib poster or your pet bigot politician you are the scum of the earth. I honestly think we as a community have been exceedingly overly patient with cis people and its how we got here.

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Jamie Bradburn @jbcurio.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

RIP Ontario Science Centre. This hurts a lot, yet sadly doesn't surprise me given how the person running my province is hellbent on destroying what was a wonderful institution that inspired so many people.

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James Wells @drjwells.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Jesus, can you not simply say he lied about this story in your headline. What is so hard about that?!?

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Chinese propaganda, tech-haters, and leftists are why there's a PR image problem for an industry that 1) says they might kill us all 2) promises to ruin every job in every industry 3) has, for four years, grossly misrepresented the capabilities and limitations of the actual products on the market.

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

On 9/11 when the first plane hit I was driving home from the gym listening to Howard Stern on 92.3 K-Rock after doing 45 minutes on the elliptical in my Atlantic Blue Mustang for a Women’s Studies class at Rutgers. If I can remember that, he should be able to remember being a heroic first responder.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

For those still learning about Germany’s neo-Nazi AfD, here are the salient facts:

INTELLIFACTS
ALICE WEIDEL BECOMES THE FIRST LEADER IN THE WORLD WHO IS ANTI-IMMIGRATION BUT HAS AN IMMIGRANT WIFE, IS ANTI-LGBTQ+ BUT IS A LESBIAN HERSELF, OPPOSES LGBT ADOPTION BUT HAS ADOPTED TWO CHILDREN, AND IS A HARDCORE GERMAN NATIONALIST BUT LIVES IN SWITZERLAND

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Memento (spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

chat is it good if your government says "we are using AI to think like fraudsters and we are shutting down hospices"

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Taka Hanazawa @takahanazawa.bsky.social · 04/09/2023

Happy Labor Day, comrades

Miles O'Brien from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine speaking of his ancestor "He was more than a hero. He was a union man."

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Biden took the short stairs up to Air Force One instead of the long stairs and it was headline news. Trump publicly fantasizes about conquering neighboring countries and their 170+ million people and the news media will hardly mention it.

Map shows an imagined USA that incudes the current country plus Canada, Mexico, Cuba, Greenland etc.

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Hoosier Homer is reading The Fifth Sun by Camilla Townsend @hoosierhomer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Do not be fooled this is intellectual warfare as much if not more than cultural war. guess what's not in the teen or kids sections? Tom Clancy, Clive Cussler, Ian Toll, Robert Leckie, Robert Massie, Dante, Anne Applebaum, a single book on the eastern front, Rick Aktinson, Mary Beard, Among other!

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Tauriq Moosa @tauriq.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I for one love the corporate structure where talentless doofuses earn all the money off the back of genuinely talented people. Very sustainable and good and moral

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James Wells @drjwells.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I got a woman born on the Iranian Plateau in 1535 BCE. She lived until 41 (died of dysentery) and had 3 surviving children of 7. So yeah, interesting.

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