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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 22h
you should feel uncomfortable with frontier AI models not because the tools lack uses but because everyone who works in hyperscale AI wants to worship these machines and every algorithm that behaves unexpectedly is an enfant terrible they admire, love, and hope to have care for them in their dotage
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 02/10/2026
This is the dodgiest and most-desperate thing I’ve seen in the bubble so far. Amazon selling their chips to a group of investors and leasing them back - an off balance sheet arrangement done in plain sight. Really scraping the bottom of the barrel here. And they’ll probably buy more!
Amazon is seeking to offload about $8bn of advanced Nvidia chips to external investors through a new vehicle aimed at strengthening its balance sheet, according to people familiar with the matter.
The Seattle-based cloud giant has held talks with investors in recent weeks to gauge interest in the deal, which would allow the company to spin off thousands of Grace Blackwell chips it is deploying in data centres across the US into a special-purpose vehicle.
Amazon will then lease the advanced AI chips back from the SPV, which would tap outside investors through debt issuance. By unloading the expensive semiconductors to investors, the company could adopt a more asset-light approach to its balance sheet.
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
From Josh Helfgott: ICE detained a Los Angeles car washer and father of four for six months. His kids ended up in therapy, his family lost its income, and he is still fighting to stay in the country. José Padilla, 41, was detained by ICE on January 27 while he
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The main reason you haven’t heard about campus sexual violence in a few years is because Trump and SCOTUS have made it much, much harder for survivors to come forward. You might vaguely remember that Title IX was a big battleground in his first term. And that we lost.
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Travis @someforeignfield.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Al Mawasi before Joe Biden decided to be Israel's Santa Claus (image, Feb 2023) vs after (image, Dec 2024). Most of these tents are refugees from Israel's May '24 Rafah offensive-Biden's "Red Line" which, if crossed, he would totally Do Something (he didn't do anything, Rafah was depopulated)
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KPM @kpmcgrath.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Every mayor in America should be asked what they are going to do to ensure civilian control of our police forces, and what they will do to officers or departments that break the law.
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Mohamad Bazzi @mbazzi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Show This to Anyone Denying Genocide” — front page of @scotnational.bsky.social
“Show This to Anyone Denying Genocide” — front page headline of The National, Scotland
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
no they weren't very close to 0% of the SS were hanged the vast, vast seriously vast majority of people who carried out the Holocaust weren't ever punished.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If an internationally-wanted war criminal (whose forces have killed Americans) comes to US soil, attacks Americans (including the mayor of the largest city), and then says "Remember the beepers" in reference to a terrorist attack he committed — how can that be taken as anything other than a threat?
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Bibi Netanyahu at the UNGA, in front of a half-empty chamber: "Do you remember the beepers? Remember? Remember them?!" [pulls out a beeper from his pocket] "Well, I can tell you this. Hezbollah certainly remembers them!"
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Athul K. Acharya @athul.acharya.cc · 23/09/2026
You voted for your daughter’s death and it should torment you until you meet your own
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It's vastly more comforting to believe in an imminent robot apocalypse than the truth: the things that will destroy us are extensions of the unsexy but obvious problems all around us. We are not doomed in one grand way, but a thousand petty small ways.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
plausible deniability machine goes whirrrrrrr
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
i'm traveling and can't sit down to write out the portland police's history of using town halls, press conferences, and leaks to campaign against elected officials but they are repeat offenders and we should call it what it is: election interference by a cartel of armed washington state residents
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 18/09/2026
Total unscientific nonsense spread via the media as a means of pretending they are doing some bastardized form of recursive self-improvement. Takes a lot to make me dislike a company more than OpenAI but Dario truly has taken the lead
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 17/09/2026
being very professional in my latest monologue

Shut the fuck up! You build cloud software! You are in full control of what gets built or not! Just because you don’t fully understand how Large Language Models make their decisions doesn’t mean that they’re “out of control” or “have their own intentions,” and your unwillingness to explain the difference and further fuel anthropomorphism only makes me more certain that you need to shut your fucking mouth.
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onion person @junlper.beer · 16/09/2026
there’s been some legendarily incorrect iran war takes that age worse with every passing day
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
New: Macklemore will donate entire $1M of his earnings from Ed Sheeran's tour to six orgs helping Palestinians — and invites Robert Kraft to match him. Says he wants to center Palestinians being killed + journalists & aid workers who keep going. "Their risk is of a far different order than mine."
With everything that has happened over the last 48 hours, I want to bring the conversation back to where it belongs: to the Palestinian people who are still being killed, still living under military occupation, and still fighting for their freedom.
I will be donating the entire $1 million of my net earnings from Ed Sheeran's Loop Tour to six organizations working directly to support the Palestinian people. And I invite Robert Kraft to match my donation. Whatever we disagree about, perhaps we can agree on this: Palestinian lives are worth protecting. A Palestinian life is no less valuable than any other life on this earth.
That is what this has always been about. Not me. Not a tour. Not the headlines or the controversy. It is about Palestinians right to freedom, dignity and safety in their own homeland. I want to center the parents carrying their children into hospitals without the basic resources to treat them, and the physicians, paramedics, journalists and aid workers who keep going back in. I want to center the organizers and activists who have paid real costs for standing with Palestine. Their risk is of a far different order than mine.
Just yesterday, 15 year old Muhammad al Zinati was killed in an Israeli strike while rushing to help aid worker Sherif Lubbad, who had already been injured. He was a child. Both were murdered. Both should be alive. And the ones still under the rubble, whose names exist only in the memories of people who may not have survived to speak them. Writing a check is one of the least costly forms of solidarity available to me. I am doing it because I can, and because these organizations are doing the work while much of the world debates it.
But aid alone cannot address the conditions that make it necessary. This is a manmade injustice, and I believe it requires immediate political change. Palestinians have lived for decades without basic rights and should not have to wait another day to be free. That is where my focus will remain. I will …
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
remember when a member of richard spencer’s entourage fired a gun into a crowd during his college speaking tour and they kept letting him speak on college campuses? it was about two months after a woman was murdered at an event he was headlining.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
i dont want to speak for anyone but i think if i were a trans person id be sick of every election being about where im allowed to poop or if i can play games with friends or if i can read books to children. id probably be pretty upset and frustrated and disappointed at this point ngl
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Matt Lieb @mattlieb.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Ed Sheeran was forced by Jonathan Greenblatt not only to fire Macklemore, but also to change the lyrics to his most famous song smdh
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 15/09/2026
Politicians who throw trans people under the bus: stop asking me for money
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 11/09/2026
Osama bin Laden's great hope for the attack was that the US would overreact -- tear itself apart, destabilize the post-war international order, & sacrifice its moral standing. The Republican Party obliged him, beyond his wildest dreams. (And let him get away!)
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
OG eugenicist Francis Galton should be a cautionary tale but instead I fear we will soon have The Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Francis Galton Centers for Disease Control and Eugenics. Have a listen to see how history is rhyming its ass off in the area of eugenics and to learn about “cocaine science”.
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Part One: Francis Galton: Inventor of Eugenics
Podcast Episode · Behind the Bastards · September 8 · 1h 5m
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I very much appreciate the latest episodes about the OG eugenicist Francis Galton from Behind the Bastards and iwriteok.bsky.social. Not only have I learned a lot but also I now have a new life goal of building a time machine so I can go back and kidney punch this shitbird.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 11/09/2026
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Ed Markey @edmarkey.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
In Massachusetts, we have a responsibility to protect the vulnerable and stand up for those who need it. We don’t throw trans kids under the bus for political points. We protect them—and all of our neighbors—because trans rights are human rights.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 10/09/2026
This Jacob Coxon thing is weird. He worked at Anthropic for six weeks and OpenAI for nearly three years. He’s doing a whole media tour without any real statements about what it is he’s scared of other than vague references to recursive self improvement, a theoretical ai that teaches itself.
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Jordan aka Jirdan @slclunk.com · 09/09/2026
Any answer other than “who gives a shit, republicans are using a dozen kids playing JV volleyball as a distraction from looting the county and covering for elite pedophiles” is cowardly horseshit
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Media Matters reviewed Fox News' coverage from five of its evening "opinion" shows. We found that their Iran coverage collapsed over the summer, while references to socialism, the WNBA, and Fauci soared. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/ira...
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Iran coverage collapsed this summer on Fox News’ evening “opinion” shows
Six months into the war Donald Trump launched against Iran, the campaign “has deteriorated into a quagmire of the president’s own making with no clear goals, no obvious strategy and no end in sight” w...
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onion person @junlper.beer · 09/09/2026
hunter biden spending months trying to recreate his image to ultimately just do a crypto scamcoin is amazing. 10/10. so glad we don’t have to pretend to take him seriously as a 2028 presidential candidate anymore
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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This is ADL's solitary statement after Nazis won state elections in Germany for the first time since the Holocaust:
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Ed Sheeran’s fans came for a concert, not performative, biased and hateful anti-Israel “activism” from his opener, Macklemore.

Imagine being a Jewish or Israeli fan who came with family or friends to enjoy the show, only to be confronted with this hostility from the stage. Or feeling so unwelcome by the opening act that you leave early.

This isn’t new for Macklemore. He has a record of demonizing Israel and Israelis, falsely accusing Israel of genocide and engaging in antisemitic rhetoric and behavior.

This is completely unacceptable.

(with embedded video of Macklemore's remarks on Palestine at the Ed Sheeran MetLife concert)

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
so far these are the big real uses of AI 1. Analyzing huge data sets better than we could before 2. Automate hacking and malware to an unprecedented degree 3. Supercharge fraud beyond all prior precedent 4. Flood the internet with slop / disinfo Where's the change in our very nature?
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The right-wing organizing around the Lindsay Clancy trial is growing and it’s frightening. A lot of people overlook these culture wars revolving around women’s issues, because, well, they’re women’s issues. But the right doesn’t. It’s how they regained such a massive cultural foothold.
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Ⓐnarchohoodism 🐈‍⬛ 🏴 @161bklyn.myatproto.social · 05/09/2026
Any nation that is not white and thinks the US will spare them if they just do as they say will find out the hard way that you can't appease fascists. They will exploit you, kill you, and laugh at how ignorant you were. Mark my words.
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
These fascists will turn around and in the next breath tell everyone their policy of excluding and harming trans people is because they want to “protect women”.
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Chris Adee @chrisadee.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The BTB episodes on the Giselle Pelicot case are genuinely distressing to listen too, but Sophie, @iwriteok.bsky.social, and Brigitte Todd do a good job of describing the horror without sensationalising it podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/b...
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Part One: The Websites Behind An International Rapist Network
Podcast Episode · Behind the Bastards · 1 September · 1hr 9min
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Here are the 33 Democrats who voted with Republicans to block federal funding to American colleges if they engage in boycotts against Israel — a foreign country that's committed genocide and killed Americans using American tax dollars:



Auchincloss (MA)	Frankel, Lois (FL)	Mannion (NY)	Scholten (MI)	Titus (NV)
Castor (FL)	Gillen (NY)	Moskowitz (FL)	Schrier (WA)	Torres (NY)
Cisneros (CA)	Golden (ME)	Norcross (NJ)	Sherman (CA)	Vargas (CA)
Costa (CA)	Gonzalez, V. (TX)	Panetta (CA)	Soto (FL)	Vindman (VA)
Courtney (CT)	Landsman (OH)	Perez (WA)	Stevens (MI)	Wasserman Schultz (FL)
Cuellar (TX)	Latimer (NY)	Riley (NY)	Suozzi (NY)	
Davis (NC)	Lee (NV)	Schneider (IL)	Thanedar (MI)
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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
im really and truly not the kind of person to shame people for the media they consume but if you watch the new harry potter you can get fucked
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 03/09/2026
CBS Boss Bari Weiss “Personally” Led Twisted 9/11 Article on El-Sayed That sick article tying Michigan’s Abdul El-Sayed to September 11 reportedly came right from the top.
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CBS Boss Bari Weiss “Personally” Led Twisted 9/11 Article on El-Sayed
That sick article tying Michigan’s Abdul El-Sayed to September 11 reportedly came right from the top.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 02/09/2026
This is an absolutely catastrophic data breach of an identity verification vendor 150+ million drivers license scans that includes photos, address, license numbers etc. It includes Pete Hegseth, security researchers, and even the deputy director of the FBI. krebsonsecurity.com/2026/09/fbi-...
A screenshot of a search result on a website titled "NEXUS | Identity Document Database" showing a locked Minnesota driver's license record for "PETER HEG******." A driver's license portrait of Peter Hegseth appears on the left, next to mostly redacted information fields, including ID number, birth date (1980), and address, followed by a prompt to purchase the full record for $100.00.
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 31/08/2026
"Eggs expensive under Biden" was a story for six months. "Trump made everything expensive on purpose" is apparently just a Trump personality quirk we're all supposed to get used to.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
under trump, the post office was perverted to rig the election under biden, nothing was done - even the guy who was installed by trump wasn't removed under trump, the post office is again being perverted to rig the election the dems aren't a serious party
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.
Not only is this system astonishingly untested, USPS has simultaneously implemented an
impracticable zero percent failure rate.
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batches, if any one ballot in the batch cannot be verified against the Portal, all ballots in that
batch will be rejected. For example, if a state election official brings a batch of 10,000 ballots to
USPS and USPS is unable to match just one of those ballots against the Portal – because, for
example, someone has recently changed their name after marriage or they’ve moved – then
USPS would refuse to mail the remaining 9,999 ballots as well. As the whistleblower notes,
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Make no mistake—this is Mike Rogers' position on data centers. He's got up to $2.6 million invested in companies cashing in on the data center boom, all while Michiganders watch their utility bills soar.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
It finally happened to the one guy who deserves this kind of treatment (because he's spent his life advocating for others to suffer this way)
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
If this was about electoral advantage — the thing reactionary centrists claim as their expertise — they would be writing about how this entire issue is a distraction. If you are concerned about the influence of fringe radicals over policymaking, Republicans are the bigger threat. Of course they are.
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