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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

People operating in US public life or influencing current extremist thinking - Lord Rees Mogg, Andrew Wakefield, Steve Hilton - all essentially identified as charlatans, or snake oil salespeople in the UK in the 90s . The North Atlantic Grift (there should be a current and tide map for that )

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RFK's book publisher and the head of his SuperPAC, MAHA Action, just said "anytime you hear the word measles in the media, you should think "this is a story meant to control what I think, what I do, what I what I believe, and what my attitude towards Bobby Kennedy ought to be."

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I'm back, I missed you all. Since this is an important subject I know too much about, here's a 🧵 explaining that AI Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult. I don't think these people should make policy. (1/?) (alternative title: Time For Some Cult Theory)

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Everyone in higher education needs to read this - starting with the Boards of Trustees who are presumably encouraging this type of activity. (Replacing humans with (more expensive) LLM tokens)

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The King Charles AI Summit /EA sex cult regulatory intersection is now living in my head ( @faineg.com , and @mariabustillos.com , holding you responsible) . In hours of Chatham House/ Ditchley /UNGA / etc symposia on ‘AI safety’ , the sex cult angle is under represented imo

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This really is shifting the Overton Window to a hole in the roof - an election speech promising to put diesel prices well above $7 , for the reward of ‘destroying Iran’ , which is not apparently destroyed, hence the very high fuel prices

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‘More than a third of the $2.8bn raised for the current 2025-26 election cycle comes from the 20 biggest mega-donors, according to an FT analysis’ And guess which industry is all over MAGA/GOP Yep, crypto Can think of £72m reasons why this sounds familiar…. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

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US billionaires line up to bankroll Republicans’ election push

Ultra-wealthy overwhelmingly back Donald Trump’s party over Democrats as money floods into midterms race

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 16/09/2026

The Sheeran Effect …like the Streisand Effect but whereby declaring yourself non-political you in fact briefly become the most political celebrity on earth

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New York City! Next week, catch @justinhendrix.bsky.social, @alicetiara.bsky.social and me LIVE in Chelsea for a discussion of The Nerd Reich. 6:30 p.m. on September 23rd. Get tix while you can. See you there! luma.com/w6c3u4o9

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An Evening with Gil Durán · Luma

Join Tech Policy Press editor Justin Hendrix and Data & Society director of research Alice Marwick for a live podcast conversation with Gil Durán, author of…

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Emily Bell @emilybell.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The tech industry’s self-regulatory effort currently runs to the following: the (Meta) Oversight Board - an ineffectual, opaque body which performs ‘independence’ whilst refusing to disclose financial details, and operating under NDAs .

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Emily Bell @emilybell.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I saw @astra.bsky.social interviewed on Democracy Now about the absurd current PR geyser erupting around AI , she said ‘they are causing the flood and building the arks’ . What a great metaphor. End Times Fascism is next on my reading list (right after Nerd Reich)

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Emily Bell @emilybell.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

You step off the internet for like a minute and the Russians release a Cameo-based midterm interference campaign ….also the fake story about the great @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social is truly appalling

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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 10/09/2026

August was the hottest month ever recorded, soaring past a key climate threshold as human-caused climate change combined with a supersized El Niño, according to the European climate service Copernicus.

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Global heat stuck on high. Scientists say August was Earth’s hottest month they’ve measured.

“It is now time to stop acting surprised that our warming planet keeps getting warmer,” said Texas A&M University climate scientist Andrew Dessler.

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Thanks so much to the brilliant women of Sinatle

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“John Fetterman is an example of common sense….” Says Mike Johnson. He’s an example of many things ….common sense is not on that very long list

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Britain is caught in in a two-bit Terminator plot. We come from the near future (and 5k miles to your west) to warn you that those tactics, that corruption, those flags, the black jorts, they need vigorous public exposure for what they are . And the application of the rule of law

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Emily Bell @emilybell.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

MAGA raging hard against ‘the elites’ aka Consumer Reports .. Looking forward to being told which OLED TV to buy, what the best EVs are, which mosquito repellents actually work ….where to get gas for under $4

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Diesel over $6 at a gas station I drove past in New Jersey 2 days ago ….

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Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕 @emma-briant.co.uk · 05/09/2026

I'm still seeing people citing the bad data in that Oxford Internet Institute study on 'cyber troops' to represent size of the influence industry and 'disinformation for hire'. Sharing my article again 'The Grim Consequences of a Misleading Study on Disinformation' www.wired.com/story/opinio...

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The Grim Consequences of a Misleading Study on Disinformation

An influential study relies too heavily on news media reporting—which has only recently acknowledged the social media manipulation problem at all.

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Emily Bell @emilybell.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Would it help Andy Burnham to know that the Democratic Party disintegrated when its leadership went awol as the US right destroyed democratic process, self-enriched at the expense of citizens and unleashed paramilitary thugs on civilian populations…because it seems as though he might not realize

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Are we at the stage where we can ask about the timing of this just as Reform and Farage are facing day 2 of huge questions about foreign donations and breaking the law?

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Emily Bell @emilybell.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

What a gorgeous film ‘Tony’ is. Cracks your heart like a Truro lobster shell www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1MV...

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Tony | Official Trailer HD | A24

YouTube video by A24

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

It's worth contrasting the NYTimes report with the one from Columbia Journalism School’s Tow Center for Digital Journalism and the Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia University: www.cjr.org/tow_center/m...

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Mamdani’s new NYC ecosystem of friendly influencers and public messaging.

A look inside the new New York ecosystem.

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Surprisingly low number by US standards

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 03/09/2026

Nigel Farage claiming ‘it was the AI what did it’ about @channel4news.bsky.social ‘s film showing him and his advisers apparently breaking the law, encouraging covert donations from the US to Reform, is a classic case of ‘the liar’s dividend’

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The NBA-Clippers story is a story about two things working better than recent years have led us to expect: the ability of journalism to hold power and money to account and the willingness of an institution to do the same. It also serves as a reminder that those two things should be linked.

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Ellie Mae O'Hagan @elliemaeohagan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I love the dedication in My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinhem

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And who are the redacted US /overseas donors funneling money into UK politics through their children…?

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Also worth remembering the chief architect of this - Reform strategist is James Orr - a Cambridge professor who once held a postdoc fellowship in ‘ethics’ . Fun fact - also a Balliol classicist , just like Boris Johnson (…and Emily Wilson for that matter, who put her education to better use)

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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Only Reform would take a rich donor to what appears to be a B&Q gazebo out the back of a flat roof pub…like JD Vance patting down pockets in a strip mall Olive Garden

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Incredible moment in the doc when Farage’s right-hand man Dan Jukes lists several foreign donors who’ve given money to the party via their kids. It’s not just one or two backers - it’s a huge conspiracy cooked up by the party to break the law. It’s bigger than we even thought

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 03/09/2026

The person who made the thing: do they need to sell it in order to survive? and keep making things? Is the thing worth the amount they are asking, to you, so that they can survive? In other words, do you want them to be able to continue in their profession? If yes, then pay.

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