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Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 04/10/2026
Tiffany Sloan is a joke stealing AI generated stand-up comedian that has amassed a following of 350K users on Instagram. AI is supposed to transform the world and it's doing it in the worst and dumbest possible ways. buttondown.com/natebowling/...
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The Joke Thief
The AI Powered Joke Thief (or Fine, Somebody Wants This)
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026
This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 05/10/2026
Exactly this. And in fact, many models *have* been created this way, and decades of prior machine learning systems *were* created this way, consensually. These things are choices! People are STILL working this way! It’s not just that a better world is possible — it already EXISTS. We can nurture it.
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WIRED @wired.com · 05/10/2026
Consumer advocate Lindsay Owen’s new book, “Gouged,” traces how corporations use software—from ever-changing prices to opaque algorithms—to squeeze every penny from you.
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How to Beat Surveillance Pricing Before It Bleeds You Dry
Consumer advocate Lindsay Owen’s new book, Gouged, traces how corporations use software—from ever-changing prices to opaque algorithms—to squeeze every penny from you.
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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
Seriously, just do not use muse
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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is all true. Tremendous work here
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Heather Vogell @heathervogell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
What do Papa Johns, Putin & a Dutch ship company have in common? One man: Tom Dans, chair of the US Arctic Research Commission. The role is typically held by science/public policy experts. That’s not Dans. We dug into how he could be leveraging the role for his own interests 🧵
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026
Hold the HUMANS accountable for what their systems do. The humans' companies and individual humans themselves.
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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026
Once you understand the corporate culture of AI hyperscalers is everyone cooking their brains by locking themselves in the bathroom, holding flashlights under their chins, and saying "Aaaaaaaaaay Eyeeeeeee" until they wet themselves in terror, things snap into focus: pluralistic.net/2023/06/04/a...
A cutaway view of a stone tower containing an elaborate water-powered medieval geared machine. Rising out of the machine is a rainbow-tinted, pixelated God with the robes, beard and all. To one side of this scene is a cluster of tiny people in Jesus-era robes, falling about themselves in religious ecstasy all over a stone staircase, atop of which stands a robed priest with his hands upraised. The background is a set of shining golden rays, emanating from pixel-God.
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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 07/09/2026
Bek MacIntosh wants Albertans to know this: it is possible for a community to stop a $10-billion hyperscale data centre dead in its tracks. thetyee.ca/News/2026/09...
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The Making of an AI Data Centre Warrior | The Tyee
Bek MacIntosh helped rally her Alberta town to kill a megaproject. The wider fight, she vows, is ‘just getting started.’
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 27/08/2026
EFF is keeping a list of lawless ICE subpoenas to tech companies. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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A List of ICE Subpoenas to Tech Companies
This is likely an undercount. The full scope is hard to pin down because these subpoenas typically only come to light when a user is given notice and challenges them in court, or when a company
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Manimal @sammyhagarisgreat.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Dolly Parton decided to cover "Stairway to Heaven" as a gospel song, and asked Robert Plant for permission to write a new verse for it, and Robert Plant basically said "of course you can, you're Dolly Parton" youtu.be/YhTvxVxXJLQ
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Dolly Parton - Stairway to Heaven (Audio)
YouTube video by Dolly Parton
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 19/08/2026
Maybe it seems weird that AI bosses won't stop rending their garments about the terrible potential of their bots, from the jobspocalypse that'll ensue when AI does our jobs, to the impending moment when the word-guessing programs learn too many words, wake up and turn us into paperclips. 1/
A giant killer pulp robot bestriding a 17th century map of the world, against an illustrated backdrop of the stars and planets and spaceships from an early 20th century picture-book.
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404 Media @404media.co · 17/08/2026
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
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We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
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Microplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Brendel
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Guys will listen to male influencer bullshit about needing to have a six pack and manipulate everyone and meanwhile women will go "you know who is the sexiest fucking guy l've ever seen?" and post this
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August Pamplona @cosmicaug.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
YouTube is taking down Gil Duran's Nerd Reich channel.
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All The Right Movies @alltherightmovies.com · 15/08/2026
APOCALYPSE NOW was released in the US 47 years ago today. Francis Ford Coppola’s magnum opus is considered by many to be the definitive Vietnam War film. The production of the film is one of the most unbelievable stories in Hollywood history. 1/55
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 11/08/2026
This is so great. Paulina Borsook deserves her flowers. One of the best things about the past year has been (accidentally) helping to get her book re-published. Paulina is one of the only tech critics who got it right. Buy her book! Put her on your show! www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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A tech prophet finally gets her second coming
In 2000, Paulina Borsook published a book foretelling the anti-government sentiments of the tech world. Now that it’s too late, people are ready to listen.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 10/08/2026
Hundreds of local police departments are preparing to deploy autonomous, AI-driven surveillance drones. The drones are capable of following a single vehicle across an entire city, capturing footage through apartment windows, and generally recording daily life from the sky without being noticed.
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First Came the Flock Cameras. Now Local Cops Want Autonomous Drones.
Hundreds of local police departments have received waivers to fly surveillance drones that navigate with AI.
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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 07/08/2026
This just bent my brain
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 06/08/2026
yeah, this is good. properly regulated speed and red light cameras are good, Flock-style license plate reader dragnet surveillance is bad www.aclum.org/news/were-pr...
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We’re privacy hawks. Here’s why we’re alarmed by license plate readers, and not necessarily by speed cameras - ACLU of Massachusetts
When properly regulated, speed cameras don't pose the same threats to privacy as license-plate-reader surveillance
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404 Media @404media.co · 05/08/2026
"The vehicle travels to Michigan frequently which is a known source state for marijuana as it is legal there," a probable cause justification reads.
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Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines to Create Pretext to Search His Car for Weed
"The vehicle travels to Michigan frequently which is a known source state for marijuana as it is legal there," a probable cause justification reads.
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Tanya D. || Writer || Narrative Designer @cypheroftyr.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Daaaamn. “AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage." www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...
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Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying
It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...
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Acting the Fulemin @actingthefulemin.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Glad TVOTR is getting another round of appreciation. They had a mix of really weird and inventive stuff and then some stone cold rippers (below is the latter)
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 03/08/2026
"Flock cameras are just one part of a vast ecosystem," @lastweektonight.com's John Oliver warned his audience last night. "Check out resources like the EFF's Atlas of Surveillance, which catalogs each of the technologies used in your area." www.atlasofsurveillance.org/
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/08/2026
Suresh reports on his experience talking with hundreds of executives (and, more importantly, their subordinates) about what (if anything) AI is doing for business in an essay entitled "AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decisionmaking": hermit-tech.com/blog/ai-mani... 11/
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AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decisionmaking
The reality of how much damage AI mania is doing to our ability to run institutions effectively.
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 31/07/2026
Franchises are fine, calm down aftermath.site/franchises-are...
geralt from the witcher
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 31/07/2026
Franchises are a blight aftermath.site/why-franchises...
baby yoda eating
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Root Beer Pumpkin @root-beer-man.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
not sure any of this is new information to me exactly but it's laid out here with wonderful verve, wit, and fluency such that it wouldn't be bad to share with the less plugged-in characters in your life
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Catherina Gioino @catgioino.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
I wrote about how much Americans wagered on sports betting in 2025 and how it’s more than they spent on movies, art, museums and music combined. Read my article @fortunemagazine.bsky.social fortune.com/2026/07/26/g...
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Gambling becomes America's favorite pastime as Americans spend more on sports bets than movies, arts, museums, and music combined | Fortune
Americans wagered $166 billion on sports last year, more than Hollywood, the music industry, books, and museums combined.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 26/07/2026
FWIW, Meta was fully aware of how these glasses would primarily be used. The glasses were designed to erase consent, and that is why they exist. Anything that they do that suggests they want to ameliorate this use is an attempt to win the PR battle and manipulate public opinion.
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Meta Desperately Trying to Ban Creeps Misusing Its AI "Pervert Glasses"
Meta is vowing to crack down on creeps misusing its Ray Ban smart glasses. Whether it will be enough to regain trust remains to be seen.
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NPR @npr.org · 26/07/2026
The revelations came out in a federal court case brought by Democratic states challenging ICE's access to Medicaid data to aid in deportation efforts.
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ICE shared Medicaid data it wasn't supposed to have with Palantir
The revelations came out in a federal court case brought by Democratic states challenging ICE's access to Medicaid data to aid in deportation efforts.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 23/07/2026
Data brokers are a cancer. There's a direct line from collecting, retaining and processing our data to deepfake porn and phishing scams; racial discrimination in hiring and ICE roundups of migrants; targeted election interference and identity theft: pluralistic.net/2023/12/06/p... 1/
A hedge maze; out of its center rises the bear from the California state flag. Various human figures struggle to escape it. At the maze's entrance stands an agonized figure, reaching towards it.
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"Justice for Keith Porter Jr." Butter🏳️‍🌈 @mysterybutter.blacksky.app · 19/07/2026
Exactly how ICE agents should live out the rest of their lives. In infamy.
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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Our two investigations into Madison Square Garden are now unpaywalled and free for anyone to read.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/07/2026
This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 12/07/2026
Elon Musk’s cuts to U.S.A.I.D. led to some 700,000 deaths, Atul Gawande says. www.newyorker.com/news/the-new...
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The Human Cost of DOGE’s War on U.S.A.I.D.
Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and the “public man-made death” that they’ve caused.
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Daily Kos @dailykos.com · 11/07/2026
And it could happen to you. www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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ICE is now coming for US citizens over strongly worded emails
Immigration and Customs Enforcement came to his doorstep and waited outside of his hotel after he criticized them—now David Streever is suing.
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 11/07/2026
Memphis is under siege from the federal government. This is hideous.
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Second Person in a Week Killed by Federal Task Force in Memphis
Tennessee authorities are investigating both shootings involving agents working with the task force in Memphis.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 09/07/2026
Since Trump returned to office, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo is the tenth person federal immigration agents have shot and killed. trib.al/P865fE1
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ICE Is Hoping You Won’t Notice the Man Agents Killed In Texas
The administration may have changed its P.R. strategy for Trump’s mass deportation campaign. The violence hasn’t changed at all.
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Emoji Caresser @lizrummy.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Screenshot of laNNa Rizzo's twitter profile:

@alannarizzo
Catch me on @LADTerritory & Fair Territory with @Ken_Rosenthal
 on @foulterritoryTV, Blue Jays Central on @SportsNet & @NESN
. All info. is on my link. ⬇️
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 04/07/2026
What better way to celebrate the 4th of July than by getting a bunch of my novels, with a big chunk of your purchase price going to World Central Kitchen, my selected charity for this bundle. Pay what you like (the more you pay, the more you get), and help feed people in need all over the world.
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 02/07/2026
We're fast approaching the point where 'downloading something and sharing it to keep it alive isn't piracy. It's all we've got left.' aftermath.site/video-game-pir...
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Rogue @rogue.site · 24/06/2026
Cosmetics, vehicles, story content, and entire shops will only be available in the $100 version. Also, Rockstar is still accused of crunch and union-busting. www.rogue.site/news/gta-6-u...
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Parts of GTA 6 will be locked behind the Ultimate Edition
Cosmetics, vehicles, shops, and more will be locked behind the Ultimate Edition paywall
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Andy Robinson @andyrobinson.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
"I think Star Wars: Galactic Racer might be the Burnout revival I've waited decades for." www.videogameschronicle.com/features/i-t...
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I think Star Wars: Galactic Racer might be the Burnout revival I’ve waited decades for | VGC
Fuse and Lucasfilm Games discuss Galactic Racer’s high-octane action and surprisingly deep story mode…
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 16/06/2026
"Ben owns a farm. He employs 100 workers. His total payroll is $10 million/year. One day, he buys a mule, which provides the worker who uses it with a modest 10% productivity gain. Ben fires 99 of his workers and purchases 99 mules, expecting a 1,000% productivity gain..."
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AI Economics for Dummies
“Xavier owns an apartment that he rents out at a loss of $1 billion/month. Seeing this success, he decides to make financial commitments to construct $850 bi...
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