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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 16h
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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Mei 🪽 @meidotwav.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 26/09/2026
Peter Thiel praises evil. Peter Thiel hates democracy. Peter Thiel founded Palantir. Peter Thiel owns JD Vance. Peter Thiel is the most powerful billionaire in the United States. Peter Thiel can’t stop talking about the “Antichrist.” Find out why. Read “The Nerd Reich”
Perfect with photos of teal and Judy Vance. Quote from Peter Teal if you’re evil, you’re actually kind of good because at least you’re getting something done.
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Otto von Biz Markie @donachaidh.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This is why I refuse to cede a single millimeter of ground on the subject of trans rights despite being the cisest, hetest, whitest dude on earth. People are not a policy. Everyone deserves to exist and belong and be loved.
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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Look, my intention is not to rub it in here, but I've been interested in electric cars for a very long time because I have been blessed with a memory longer than that of a goldfish. My flavor of Midwestern cheap is about stability in costs, not just what's cheap today.
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Greedling @greedling1729.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Virgin AGI risk vs Chad Global Warming
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 18/09/2026
I'll to come right out and say it: statistical extrapolation is *fine*. One of the most useful ways to understand the present and anticipate the future is measuring the things that happened in the past, find the correlations among them, and extrapolate likely future outcomes from those correlations.
A series of high-magnification views of a seemingly smooth human heart valve, revealing the rough texture under extreme close-up.


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Zhaoxing Wang, Kunpeng Wang & Yan Xu (modified)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-56485-5

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
If only the media had as much interest in the world's richest person, the primary funder of the Republican Party, who spoke at Trump's Inauguration and gave a Sieg Heil, once again declaring his belief "white solidarity is the only way to survive" as they do some Twitch streamer.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
these people should be ashamed of themselves for several reasons share.google/IB2NzxpKmZaF...
The USFS said the climbers told them they had used an artificial intelligence platform, YouTube videos and AllTrails to plan the trip. They said they relied on AI to decide what food to bring and how much food and water they would need.

The group said it packed supplies for an eight-hour climb, not its roughly 16-hour ascent. The climbers said AI recommended simple carbohydrates instead of fats because fats “take too long to digest.”

“We relied too much on AI rather than our own critical thinking,” the group told rangers
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 26/08/2026
They disinvented the VCR. You might think that the reason we don't have VCRs anymore is because VCRs were supplanted by DVDs, PVRs and streaming, but that's not the case. They had it in for the VCR from the very start, and they never stopped trying to kill it. Eventually, they succeeded. 1/
A 1960s family living room in which a mom, dad and two kids are mesmerized by a cabinet-style TV. The image has been altered. The TV has an early 1990s VCR atop it. The TV screen is displaying a cross-sectioned human head with brains and spine on display. A huge fist has materialized in the room, with bloody spiked knuckle-dusters, smashing into the VCR. The oil painting over the sofa has been replaced with a pulp image of a male head, its cranium removed and replaced by a dome. Inside the dome is a red eight-segment VCR clock, displaying 12:00. The background in the painting is a tangle of cassette tape. The whole image's colors have been boosted, giving it an overexposed look.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 22/08/2026
Some of those people fancy themselves to be veritable Warren Buffets for having had the shrewd financial insight that buying a house and living in it was a good idea. The *truly* smart ones know that they just got lucky. 11/
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
People say we can't compare this to the Third Reich because of the atrocities but we only found out about the atrocities after the fact when it was all said and done and we're not done with this yet so I am sure the worst stomach churning shit has yet to be revealed.
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Tristan Lee @tristanl.ee · 09/08/2026
Everyone knows the first lines of that famous poem: First they came for the Nationalists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Nationalist
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Again, a reminder that a mere 35 years ago, a Republican POTUS led a broad international coalition, under United Nations auspices, to reverse the illegal & unprovoked violation of the territorial sovereignty & the seizure of the oil resources of another country.
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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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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
"If there is a question to ask, then, it is this: Why does Musk get a pass? Why do politicians, journalists and commentators treat his far-right racist radicalism as a sideshow rather than the core of his political, ideological and industrial project..." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/o...
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Opinion | Elon Musk Is a Menace to Society (Gift Article)
Why does the owner of X get a pass for what he says and does there?
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Thank you to @emmettmacfarlane.com and Andrew Leach for their help with this one! WATCH THE FULL VIDEO HERE: youtu.be/rgAa5XAcNCU
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Shopify's CEO just suggested poor people shouldn't get to vote — and he’s influencing our politics
YouTube video by Rachel Gilmore
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Musk has been socializing violence since long before that. Any analysis of Xitter as a tool of violence has to draw the continuity of Jan6 through to today.
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Brett Meiselas @bmeiselas.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
lots of reporters suddenly worried about slipping into communism but strangely f*cking quiet about slipping into fascism
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
When the story of why humanity didn't stop climate change is written, it will feature front pages like this. Even as the skies blacken with climate change-induced wildfires, right wing media continue their relentless crusade against measures to tackle it.
The Times: Net zero risks blackouts. Below a photo of French wildfires.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
At one point she notes that AfD, the German political party that Musk supports, has "real neo-Nazis." Musk literally just shrugs.
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
MAGA hates us. They kiss Putin's ring but hate their neighbour. They hate Canada because we are democratic. Because we refuse to bend the knee. Because our economy is strongest in the G7. There can be no peace between our nations until MAGA is defeated. nationalnewswatch.com/2026/04/17/t...
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'They suck': Lutnick criticizes Canada's trade strategy
National Newswatch: Canada's most comprehensive site for political news and views.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
If trans people don't have rights, no one does. If we're fighting off the right's attack on their chosen scapegoat of the moment with the values we believe in most, we're surrendering.
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Adam Steinbaugh @adamsteinbaugh.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
After federal agents shot Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, a New Yorker sent ICE's director an email in January comparing him to a Nazi. This week, DHS agents stalked him across New York. His home. A hotel. They gave his wife a letter warning of criminal prosecution. www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06...
Two DHS agents on a doorbell camera.“You are a monstrous human being and will go down in history as America’s Reinhard Heydrich, the butcher.

“The way you are protecting the obvious execution in Minnesota, even as we see the videos, will lead to your downfall. Even Trump will turn on you before the end, and you will be a sad, despised man who eats himself alive with shame at your own pathetic weakness.

“You will never know peace. You will seek to lose yourself, to escape the burden of knowing the truth about yourself. But wherever you go, you will find yourself. You will torment yourself until your last day on Earth.”
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Two ICE agents showed up at a polling place to threaten a poll worker into taking down a social media post about the agent who shot Renée Good. If you saw this happening in another country, what would you call it?
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 23/06/2026
A woman tells 2 Muslim women they don’t belong in a “Christian country,” gets fired, goes viral & raises $100,000+ in donations in 24 hours. This incident is not isolated. It’s the latest in a well-documented traceable pattern that corporate media refuses to connect. I bring the receipts.
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The Racist To Riches Pipeline
White Supremacy Is Monetized in America. The Receipts Are Overwhelming.
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Stephanie Carvin @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
I did an interview with CTV News about my new book with @amaramarasingam.bsky.social on far-right extremism in Canada. www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...
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‘It’s Canada. It’s Canadians’: New book examines rise of far-right extremism
A new book examining far-right extremism in Canada argues the movement has evolved dramatically in the past decade, shifting from small, organized groups to a broader network fuelled by social media, ...
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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 12/06/2026
These fucking morons. www.bugeyedandshameless.com/p/the-stupid...
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The Stupid Cuban Missile Crisis
Donald Trump is unfit for office. He might do genocide before Congress recognizes that.
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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Majority Black districts in the South that civil rights activists fought and died for are being wiped off the map in a matter of days but the insurrectionists who tried to overturn the 2020 election are being given $1.7 billion from the government
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 08/05/2026
1. 🧵"If you are taking seats from Black people...then you are a thief." Baton Rouge civil rights activist Gary Chambers said the quiet part out loud Friday as GOP lawmakers push to wipe out Louisiana’s majority-Black districts. See the heated exchange👇
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Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
This week, the Supreme Court finally killed off the Voting Rights Act of 1965. I've spent the past decade studying the VRA and the attacks on it, so I thought I would offer some historical perspective, and where I think we're headed. This will be a long thread; buckle up.
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
👏 Canada 👏 Post 👏 is 👏 a 👏 public 👏 service 👏 Nothing proves how capitalism has brain rotted everyone than thinking the post office, hospitals, public transit, libraries, etc. need to turn a profit to be worthwhile.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 18/04/2026
An article I wrote for men about "Rape Academy." Women already know this & I say this with full awareness of how uncomfortable it makes men: Most men are not safe to be around alone. This is not sustainable & men must lead the change. Men, we need to talk: qasimrashid.substack.com/p/men-we-nee...
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Men, We Need to Talk About "Rape Academy"
This isn’t about women. This is about us. And it’s long past time we had this conversation
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Weedle @weedle.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Exactly one year ago today:
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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I think it's bad for the President to threaten to annihilate an entire culture and i do not think you are being alarmist if you take his threats seriously and literally.
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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 04/04/2026
If this stands, then Trump has effectively dissolved Congress's budget authority, which is most of its authority.
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Liberating the Department of Homeland Security From the Democrat-Caused Shutdown
MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF HOMELAND SECURITY THE DIRECTOR OF THE OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET SUBJECT:       Liberating the Department of Homeland
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/04/2026
The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
The President of the U.S. The man with the nuclear codes. And people are just going to pretend this is ok. In a functioning society, he would be removed from office within hours by his own party.
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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
The New York Times deleted Trump’s “open the fuckin’ strait” line to make him look less insane Their write-up falsely says his post says only “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!!” and “Praise be to Allah”
NYT: Iran War Live Updates: Trump Escalates Threat to Hit Iranian Power Plants After U.S. Rescues Downed Airman
President Trump used an expletive-laden social media post to taunt Iranian leaders, saying that the United States would attack if they did not fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz.  NYT: President Trump on Sunday escalated his threats to bomb Iranian power plants within the next two days and taunted the country’s leaders in an expletive-laden social media post.

Mr. Trump, seemingly emboldened by the successful U.S. rescue of an American airman in Iran over the weekend, issued a new ultimatum to Iran to end its chokehold over the Strait of Hormuz, a major Persian Gulf waterway for the transport of oil and gas, by Apr. 6.

If Iran’s government did not, he said, U.S. forces would target the country’s energy infrastructure, which supplies power for millions of civilians.

“Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!!” Mr. Trump wrote on social media. The president has previously postponed his deadline to attack twice and the Omani foreign ministry said on Sunday that officials had discussed how to reopen the Strait of Hormuz with Iranian counterparts without reaching a definitive agreement.“Praise be to Allah,” Mr. Trump added, before signing off in all caps.

Iran has threatened to retaliate by intensifying its attacks on critical infrastructure in Israel and Arab states that are allied with the United States. An escalation could further derail the lives of civilians throughout the region and add to worries about the global economy, which has been rattled by soaring energy prices since the start of the war.

Over the past two days, the U.S. military has been in a race with Iranian armed forces to find the missing airman after an F-15E jet was shot down over Iran on Friday, in the first known instance of a U.S. combat aircraft since the start of the war.

The plane’s pilot was quickly rescued. But a second officer was stranded in Iran and injured in the incident. American commandoes found the airman deep inside Iranian territory under the cover of darkness.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Some people call this "sane-washing" but I think a better description is when the real Trump falters, they sub in a fake, imaginary Trump into their stories. Beyond cleaning up untidy remarks to make them sound more coherent: "Trump super concerned with nuclear proliferation" is an imaginary guy
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
They started an illegal war of choice during an ideological, racist and sexist purge led by right wing podcasters calling targets on a sieg heiling billionaire’s website, believing their superior genes and brutality would lead to rapid victory and are now facing defeat bsky.app/profile/dunc...
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
The US President casually announcing his intention to commit war crimes on social media. That's where you're at, America.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 21/03/2026
Note that MAGAs outraged at the left for not adequately mourning Charlie Kirk’s death are also twisting themselves into a fascist pretzel to justify Trump openly celebrating Meuller’s death. Every MAGA accusation is a confession & the cruelty is the point.
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Dr Craig Dalȝell @thecommongreen.scot · 21/03/2026
Authoritarians always require both of these things to be true: That The Enemy is weak and easily crushed by the might of The Leader. AND That The Enemy is strong, at or already inside the gates, and that you must sacrifice your freedom to The Leader to increase His might to stop them.
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eavestrough.bsky.social @eavestrough.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
"And hold them to account, legally when appropriate. Not for retribution, but for the future. So lessons learned will stick. Jail has a way of doing that." This is critically important if you want international allies to rebuild trust. A Trump-like regime cannot be permitted yet again.
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eavestrough.bsky.social @eavestrough.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
10/10 Malcolm Tucker quote.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
We as Americans cannot fathom how profoundly destabilizing Trump’s insane Greenland saber-rattling was to European allies. It was a rupture that will never be fully repaired — and yet America has already forgotten it.
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