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Researches Propaganda & IW; Visiting Prof @notredame.bsky.social; Fellow @ Bard; Associate @ Cambridge; Owner Maven of Persuasion; Snr Researcher Oscar-shortlisted The Great Hack on #CambridgeAnalytica. 🐕 emma-briant.co.uk signal: Emmalbriant.44

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Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕 @emma-briant.co.uk · 2h
Whaaaaaaat?!!
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 8h
Four-byline alert: “.. Meta claimed that $4.1 billion of stock options exercised by Mr. Zuckerberg counted as a research expense ..” @nytimes.com $META www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 13h
This is a pretty stunning thing to admit
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 21h
The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”
Document signed by Trump, Sundar Pichai
Google
Dario Amodei
Anthropic
Mark Zuckerberg
Meta

Greg Brockman
OpenAl

Elon Musk
XAI

Jensen Huang
nvidia “Unites States”
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Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕 @emma-briant.co.uk · 13h
I hate ads. But @thedailyshow.com Jon Stewart does his ads on his podcast and, they're wonderfully absurd. He did one today for @npr.org - how great it is they use jazz for the transitions, so you get this diddly bit of music and then "We are all going to die." 😆🤗 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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Blue Wave on the Prairie? with Josh Turek
Podcast Episode · The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart · September 30 · 1h 22m
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Meh Pluribus Unum (Alli) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @pluribus-unum.co · 16h
Sonic screwdriver, please
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Danie Ware @danacea.bsky.social · 17h
A little reminder that the Doctor has spent multiple lifetimes, battling evil world-challenging robots, in a whole variety of guises. Take this shit, and fucking shove it.
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Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕 @emma-briant.co.uk · 15h
I can't believe how inundated I've been with peer review requests recently. I've had 3 so far this week and it's only Wednesday. This must be the AI- effect.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
this really is impeachable for any president, but really grotesque coming from a regime that cut life-saving development aid because they said it was not efficient
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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Researchers made a swallowable battery from a rice paper–like material and body-compatible elements: #chemsky 🧪
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This battery is ready to eat
Paper-based power source worked inside pigs for a few days, then vanished in weeks
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Kelly @justkelly.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The Cornell victim has been doxxed on X. So worried for her. I hate this planet.
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Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕 @emma-briant.co.uk · 30/09/2026
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Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕 @emma-briant.co.uk · 29/09/2026
Oh wow
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David DeWitt @daviddewitt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Trump administration has infuriated lawmakers from both political parties by using a controversial maneuver to cancel funding previously approved by Congress. The cancelled $810 million would have gone to refugee assistance programs ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/09/28/r...
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Trump administration revokes $810M approved by Congress for refugee aid and more • Ohio Capital Journal
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has, once again, infuriated lawmakers from both political parties by using a controversial maneuver to cancel funding previously approved by Congress.  The $810…
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C. McGuinn Freeman @cmf406.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's been a terrible food year for the bears, but FFS people! Do not feed them! Especially FOURTEEN on your property! Now they're all dead, thanks to this idiot. nbcmontana.com/news/local/o...
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Officials euthanize 14 black bears after alleged feeding near Bozeman
Wildlife officials euthanized 14 black bears north of Bozeman after investigators found the animals had become dangerously accustomed to people and human-provid
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Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕 @emma-briant.co.uk · 25/11/2025
NEW: My Udemy course 'Propaganda & Disinformation for Beginners' has helped students in 26 countries worldwide strengthen their armour against disinformation since it launched 2 years ago. Techniques Cambridge Analytica used to secretly profile millions have become a vastly profitable industry.. /1
World map showing students from 26 countries and in 9 languages.
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Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕 @emma-briant.co.uk · 29/09/2026
What a joke.
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Amazing stuff here
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Conversation with America
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Is it accurate to say that the Big Beautiful Bill on average made the poorest people in America even poorer and the richest people in America even richer, when looking at total household resources? One word answer only, please.

Yes
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Dave Levinthal @davelevinthal.com · 29/09/2026
NEW: During her time in public service, WH press secretary Karoline Leavitt’s private family investments included stock in: 🇺🇸 Trump’s social media company 🪖 Defense contractors 🛢️ Oil companies 🤖 Tech giants 🔌 Tesla In @washingtonsun.bsky.social: www.washingtonsun.com/money/karoli...
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Karoline Leavitt Discloses Family Investments in Trump Media and Tesla
An ethics document shows the former press secretary’s family holdings contain Trump’s social media company, defense contractors, oil companies and tech giants.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
BREAKING: SCOTUS allows the Trump admin to restart third-country removals under a policy found by lower courts to violate federal law. The Democratic appointees dissent. The deportations will be OK'ed at least through the next several months, with SCOTUS agreeing to hear the case in December.
CERTIORARI GRANTED
DEPT. OF HOMELAND SEC., ET AL. V. D.V.D., ET AL.
The application for stay presented to Justice Jackson and
by her referred to the Court is granted. The February 25, 2026
order and judgment of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, case No. 1:25-cv-10676, are stayed.
The application is also treated as a petition for a writ of
certiorari, and the petition is granted. The parties are directed to brief and argue the following questions: (1) Whether
the district court had jurisdiction over Respondents' claims.
(2) Whether the district court had authority to enter classwide declaratory relief and APA vacatur under 8 U. S. C. §1252(f) (1).
(3) Whether the Government's Guidance on third-country removals
is unlawful under 8 U.S. C. §1231(b), the Due Process Clause, or FARRA/CAT and its implementing regulations. (4) Such other
questions that the Government determines are appropriate for the
proper disposition of the case. The Clerk is directed to
establish a briefing schedule that will allow the case to be argued in the December 2026 argument session. The stay shall
terminate upon the sending down of the judgment of this Court.
Justice Sotomayor, Justice Kagan, and Justice Jackson would deny the application for stay.
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David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There's only three women in this photo and one of them's in a painting.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026
Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows...
Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future
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Antifa Chief Product Officer @evilal.com · 29/09/2026
Have you seen this? appleinsider.com/articles/26/...
appleinsider.com
Meta Muse AI reportedly read Mac Messages without consent
In a completely unsurprising turn of events, Meta's Muse AI is stealing Apple Messages, past and present, and uploading the contents to its cloud, even if explicitly told not to.
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Adrian Weckler @adrianweckler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Ireland's DPC says AI firms unlikely to be permitted train data on private messages, because it would breach GDPR Likely a blow to WhatsApp, which launched Muse AI within WhatsApp in the US DPC says it also killed or delayed 9 AI services pre-launch www.independent.ie/business/blo...
independent.ie
Blow to WhatsApp as Ireland's DPC says tech giants can’t use private messages to train AI
The data watchdog also says it delayed or killed nine AI launches in Europe in recent years after the services failed to meet privacy standards
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Investigate Reform's foreign funding now! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/in...
you.38degrees.org.uk
Sign the petition to hold politicians to account
Together, we can make sure no one - however rich or powerful they may be - is allowed to take us or our democracy for a ride.
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Far-right activist Danny Tommo has been denied bail after he allegedly slashed a migrant dinghy
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Anti-migrant activist Danny Tommo denied bail after 'slashing migrant dinghy'
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
'The Westminster government’s contribution to funding domestic undergraduates studying in England fell in real terms from £8.9 billion in 2012-13 to just £3.3bn in 2024-25, a drop of more than 60 per cent, an analysis has found.'
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Nick Cohen @nickcohen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Interview with @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu on America’s corrupt empire “The U.S. we once knew is never coming back” Podcast and piece on the end of the liberal order
nickcohen.substack.com
Anne Applebaum: America’s corrupt empire
The U.S. we once knew is dead and gone
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Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕 @emma-briant.co.uk · 29/09/2026
Is it me or are Meta's new 'upgrade' audio only surveillance glasses just as freaking creepy as the perve glasses? So, basically they are LESS recognisable and no light to show they are recording the speech of everyone around? That's meant to be reassuring how exactly?
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Luna @lunalore.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I get the feeling that Meta tried SO HARD to make this mascot thing the cuddliest lil’ guy ever but all I see is an unholy amalgamation of the Snuggle fabric softener teddy bear & the Adipose Babies from Doctor Who. Its an echo of both but not either, and feels viscerally WRONG
Snuggle fabric softener teddy bearAdipose Fat Babies flying up to the mother ship in series 4 of Doctor Who
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The study has been published in Nature. YES, it is PEER-REVIEWED. • www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪🧵⬇️
ABSTRACT
A key challenge in addressing the antibiotic resistance crisis is identifying new antimicrobial compounds.
Although natural products produced by fungi and bacteria, particularly actinomycetes, have been the
years, they have fallen out of favour owing to the frequent rediscovery of known drug scaffolds. The current perception is that antibiotic-producing actinomycetes have been over-mined and possess little novelty left to yield.
Here we demonstrate that by using improved fractionation approaches that enrich previously overlooked minor products, even well-studied strains of antibiotic-producing actinomycetes can provide new chemical scaffolds with unique modes of action. By fractionating a library of natural product extracts from soil bacteria, we show that Streptomyces rimosus, the source of the well-known antibiotic oxytetracycline, produces a cyclic depsipeptide antibiotic that we call manikomycin.
Manikomycin can kill multidrug-resistant
binds in the E-site of the large subunit of the bacterial ribosome, preventing entry of the 3' end of the tRNA into the E-site and effectively hindering the translocation step of protein synthesis in a sequence-context-specific manner.
Manikomycin is the first antibacterial agent, to our knowledge, to target the critical but underexplored E-site in the large ribosomal subunit, highlighting its value as a lead for developing new antibiotics.
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
GOOD NEWS! Researchers have discovered a new antibiotic, known as manikomycin, that may be a bulwark in the fight against drug-resistant superbugs. By attacking the ribosome in a never-before-seen way, manikomycin can evade the existing mechanisms pathogens have developed to resist antibiotics.
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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
And as a reminder - vaccine innovations can & have ended the threat of many diseases over the last century (at least technically, barring the hopefully temporary outbreaks caused by anti-vaccine paranoia).
Chart from Our World In Data showing the many vaccine innovations since 1880, in some cases technically eliminating diseases entirely, like polio and typhoid.
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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I know there is a hell of a lot going on right now. But not all of it is bad. Some is astonishingly good - like the results of this study from June. Cervical cancer is a terribly cruel thing. This might, at long last, be the beginning of the end of it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
BBC News headline "Young women now have 'close to zero' risk of cervical cancer death after HPV jab"
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Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕 @emma-briant.co.uk · 23/09/2026
The Imperial Logic of “Lake America” by Emma Briant in Fair Observer www.fairobserver.com/united-state...
fairobserver.com
The Imperial Logic of “Lake America”
US President Donald Trump’s renaming of Lake Ontario to “Lake America” reflects coercive, unpredictable tactics resembling mafia-style intimidation
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Mollie Katzen @molliekatzen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There are more Cornell frat boys accused of raping one woman than there are trans athletes competing in all of NCAA sports.
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 29/09/2026
Buried lede: among those speaking out against this is Gregory Baylor, senior counsel at Alliance Defending Freedom, a major conservative Christian legal group: “The government shouldn’t punish people who pursue socially valuable callings just because in its judgment they don’t earn enough money.”
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 27/09/2026
Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/kQdKbY1
trib.al
Trump Moves to Cut Off Student Loans for Tons of Degrees
Under a new rule, if your degree doesn’t make enough money, you won’t be able to get a student loan.
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Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕 @emma-briant.co.uk · 28/09/2026
It's sad, not funny.
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Courtney (Dr. Version) @cakrolik.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Small, but consistent, errors I've noticed that have become commonplace in undergrad writing: - titles not in italics or quotation marks; they're just hanging out in the text - no capitalization; not of names, places, titles, etc. - so little punctuation
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Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕 @emma-briant.co.uk · 28/09/2026
What Are the 26 Articles of Impeachment Against Trump? ...immigration policies, the use of military power, federal spending, tariffs, presidential pardons, the federal workforce, universities, law firms, the media, and alleged personal financial benefit. www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...
newsweek.com
Donald Trump Hit With 26 Articles Of Impeachment
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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026
Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.
wisn.com
Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport
Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.
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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
While reading, I thought it odd that I couldn't recall a full TV or film adaptation of A Study in Scarlet'... And then I reached the entire middle section of the book which is set in Salt Lake City and portrays Mormons as evil murderers, kidnappers, & enslavers of women. Ah, Victorian authors.
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
‘People are standing up and fighting back’: the north Devon revolt against a vast AI #datacentre -- Plans for one of Europe’s largest AI campuses in a Unesco-designated reserve have sparked a fierce local backlash www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
theguardian.com
‘People are standing up and fighting back’: the north Devon revolt against a vast AI datacentre
Plans for one of Europe’s largest AI campuses in a Unesco-designated reserve have sparked a fierce local backlash
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FRANCE 24 English @en.france24.com · 27/09/2026
France's far right gains ground in indirect Senate elections
f24.my
France's far right gains ground in indirect Senate elections
Marine Le Pen's far-right National Rally and its allies won enough seats in France's Senate to form a parliamentary group in the upper house for the first time in the party's history Sunday, securing 14 seats out of 348. Half the upper house is elected through indirect voting every three years, with senators in the right-wing dominated chamber serving for six years.
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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 26/09/2026
The White House is using taxpayer money to run pro-Trump propaganda ads just weeks before the midterm elections. @swin24.bsky.social and @andrewperez.bsky.social report how the ads violate federal laws and why this ad campaign even exists. Read more: zeteo.com/p/trump-love...
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I like that in becoming a nazi, you get glowing coverage as a brave iconoclast, and then when you stop being a nazi, you’re get glowing coverage as a brave dissident. Money coming and going. Only way you lose is having normal opinions like “racism bad” bsky.app/profile/trac...
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Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕 @emma-briant.co.uk · 27/09/2026
Class sizes in the UK are getting larger and larger...
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I think it’s fair to say that the student journalists at Cornell are braver than the news networks who just gave up on their WH pool ban even though CNN is still being denied access. www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...
cornellsun.com
EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will
The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.
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Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕 @emma-briant.co.uk · 27/09/2026
Hmm I've never heard of it but I also am not into contemporary country music
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