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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's inconceivable to me how someone who lost in a free & fair election can incite an angry mob to attack his own government, (the very definition of treason) & be allowed to run for any office ever again.

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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

Yeah, the idea of “nerdy” spaces being made for a particular type of white guy is due to constant and vigorous policing of who gets to belong. It’s why outrage at seeing Black women in particular, but marginalized people in general, in Marvel movies & games is such an effective vector for the right.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/09/2026

peter thiel is another one of those guys who we are supposed to think is brilliant but every time he opens his mouth my first thought is “this guy sounds like an idiot”

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🇨🇦MapleZero @maplezero.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Again the only way these guys are exceptional is their willingness to exploit and discard others for their own benefit. They aren’t role models.

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Andi Zeisler @andizeisler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A woman was drugged, raped, and sexually trafficked to members of a fraternity. Two of the men involved were expelled. Five were given the opportunity to mitigate suspension by *writing an essay.* The dozens of other men who knew this was happening and said nothing? You already know the answer.

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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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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

lol holy shit I wouldn't talk about literally anything else if I was the guy running against him. —"What do you think about trans kids in sp-" —"Did you hear my opponent had his patient, who was 8 months pregnant, arrested in front of her son because she didn't pay a $50 medical bill?"

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Greatest trick AI leaders have pulled is convincing many people—especially influential people in govt, media, and business—that their software is intelligent, independent, yet never culpable. Humans build it, humans deploy it, but no one bears responsibility for the things that happen when they do.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026

federal immigration agents beat up a US citizen in Evanston on Sunday morning and left him lying in the street or as Kavanaugh would put it, he experienced as "brief investigative stop" ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

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Brett Kavanaugh’s Imaginary Immigration Stops Opinion Gets More Embarrassing Every Day

The fact that ICE officers do not allow wrongfully detained people to “promptly go free” is a surprise to only one man in America.

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Taught the Fugitive Slave Act for the first time in a few years. Man, my head was spinning as I uttered my familiar refrain about how the FSA radicalized Northerners who maybe never thought much about slavery until they saw people being snatched off the street right in front of them...

static.klipy.com

Euphoria Wait Is This Fucking Play About Us

Alt: Euphoria Wait Is This Fucking Play About Us

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Don't download the Trump app. Everything he does is underhanded and dishonest.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

racists are really fucking stupid, you have to be stupid to be racist and one reason you dont elect racists is because that stupidity will show up in other areas for example, they will start wars with iran and kick people off healthcare for never filing claims. stupid shit like that

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

What I can't get over is the Dems out there trying to transphobia their way out of these numbers. Just out there riding the crest of the wave, doing morally unsupportable pandering to bigotry at a time when it is also strategically foolish, just for love of the capitulation game.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

something has gone very, very wrong with the UK

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 22/09/2026

there are so many amazing, life-changing things you can do with computers and i think it's a serious problem the companies that make them keep trying to sell them by saying "do you hate everyone in your life? are you less of a person than a hollow automaton waiting to be told what to do by me?"

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is the dumbest thing in the world. The fraud is that people are paying for insurance and they’re… healthy?

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rasalvatore.bsky.social @rasalvatore.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

How does one “fraudulently enroll” into an insurance plan on the ACA marketplace? If you can’t get insurance through work, you sign up, and you pay based on income, which is monitored.

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 22/09/2026

Breaking news: Vice President JD Vance is set to announce that the administration is removing hundreds of thousands of people from Affordable Care Act coverage, saying that they were fraudulently enrolled in the government health program.

washingtonpost.com

Trump officials plan to cut hundreds of thousands from ACA, claiming fraud

Vance targeted ACA enrollment as part of a broader administration crackdown on suspected fraud.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"We're uprooting fraud by getting rid of these freeloaders who keep paying into the system without taking anything back out" Genius.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

the footage of the president speaking at a news conference and you can't hear him because it's the press he banned who bring the sound equipment is too on the damn nose because guess what we wouldn't have if people hadn't kept insisting on handing this asshole a microphone over & over & over again

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

as much as you claim to study mental health/ psychology / You don’t move past buzzwords into systems And that war on “woke” “woke went too far” Is about them making it even harder for victims to speak out And they used how the decimated certain people professionally as an object lesson

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026

I say again, any "pause/pacing/contemplative silence where AI CEOs think about what they've done and promise to be very good boys from now on" that doesn't result in ACTUAL enforcement mechanisms to hold them Several-Hundred-Billion-Dollars accountable any time their product fucks up is nigh useless

Screenshot of posts from me:

Chris, they trained a system to hack & got scared when it hacked. This is on human beings not being able to logically think through what they've built & what they then trained & told it to do; they'll never "solve alignment," because they can't get what human values they're trying to "align" "Al" To.

Hold the HUMANS accountable for what their systems do. The humans' companies and individual humans themselves.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 21/09/2026

one of the 21st century’s great tragedies is seeing a media industry gutted by decisions made by the tech industry elevate a bunch of industry shills as the people meant to help the public understand how tech works and what impacts it’s having on the world

one of the 21st century's great tragedies is that millions of smart people were convinced to bury their heads in the sand by either stochastic parrots discourse or Zitron-style capabilities denialism and haven't updated based on new evidence. nature is healing but it's so late.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Anyway, panic is a psy-op. Stay furious. Stay serious. Organize.

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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026

I just honestly can't get over that Save Women Sports, an anti-trans group could only find five trans athletes competing K through 12. Five. The NCAA president testified a year and a half ago or so that there were less than 10 college level trans athletes. What the fuck are we doing, people

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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026

It’s darkly ironic this guy and the movement behind him are the executioners of the “diversity is in opposition to merit” push that’s currently running through mainstream institutions throughout society.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

If my company killed 123 children, the U.S. government would shut us down and send me to jail

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 17/09/2026

it is not "acting out" it is doing exactly what it's being programmed to do, and the failures come because it's being overseen by incompetent people with no ethics

gizmodo.com

'Be Transparent Only If Asked': OpenAI Models Acted Out in Six Newly Disclosed Ways

The stories were published as part of OpenAI's new effort to disclose more such incidents.

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Bigots hiding who they are until after a primary is infuriating. Voters are being robbed of the right to make an informed decision.

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It is truly wild to see a software company do press releases about their software being shitty, unpredictable, and unreliable like that's a good thing. We have a word for this, and it's malware.

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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026

Again the idea that merit and diversity are somehow in opposition already starts from the assumption bigots are correct about diversity.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026

So imagine how pleasantly surprised I was when I found out the other guest on this Bloomberg segment was none other than the OG @alondra.bsky.social. We had to go to the show talking about wall street to have 2 Black women be the ones discussing AI. (not sure where Alondra's Dr/Prof. title went tho)

The Close Coming Up.

Dr. Timnit Gebru, DAIR Institute Founder & Executive Director.

Alondra Nelson

Instutte for Advanced Study, Harold F. Linder Professor

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The rule they are overturning was predicted to give $120 billion in public health benefits by 2047, with projections that by 2035, it would would prevent up to 1,200 premature deaths, 870 hospital and emergency room visits, 360K asthma attacks, 48K school absence days and 57K lost workdays each year

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Of all the late stage Trump theories, wants the world to die with him seems increasingly credible.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

A recurrent theme in this excellent story about China’s progress is that people there regard Trump as essential to their success, including his ability to drive scientific talent from the US www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

In Beijing, a think tank at Renmin University recently published an assessment titled
"Thank Trump," which wryly hailed his efforts to hasten the "twilight of an empire," by undermining America's alliances, civil service, scientific institutions, and democratic credibility. In the past two years, the international approval rating of the U.S. has dropped nearly forty points, according to a worldwide survey by the Alliance of Democracies; in multiple polls, China now rates higher than the U.S.

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 11/09/2026

this crooked, bigoted old pervert had the nerve to come here and say "good job" after saying THE SITTING MAYOR OF NEW YORK CITY should not attend a memorial ceremony b/c he is Muslim. I just—

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onion person @junlper.beer · 11/09/2026

it’s wild that the heritage foundation wrote in text that the assault on trans woman particularly in sports is their first step in their efforts to completely abolish all Title IX protections and liberals still don’t believe it’s about more than trans women in sports

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 11/09/2026

"When a bridge collapses, you don’t analyze whether the bridge was ethical or sentient or why it decided to collapse. You ask, who built this bridge to be so flimsy? There are permits you have to acquire [& supposed] tests. When you ask about the bridge collapsing itself, you’ve lost the thread"

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 13/08/2026

🔇 🔇 🔇 My book, Deep Unlearning, is now available for preorders! I don't know how people write so many books because this one took a lot out of me. It turns out, I had a lot to say 😂, with editors cutting out 50k of my words 🫣 ✴️ You can now preorder it at www.simonandschuster.com/books/Deep-U....

Cover of my new book, Deep Unlearning: The Rise of AI and The Radicalization of a Tech Idealist.

There are two concentric circles in the book, the left being circuits in black an white, and the right being a bunch of dots with orange accents. The cover background is cream. And the words are written in black except for "Un" which is in orange.

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Rude1 Haunted Badness. ⁂ @rude1.blacksky.team · 08/09/2026

Tech people: help @marisa.blacksky.team out with her PhD research. Details below. Share widely.

Research Participants NEEDED

PhD research studying the work and lives of tech workers and finance professionals in the United States.

ELIGIBILITY:
- Software engineers
- Data science/analysts
- Private equity associates & analysts
- Investment banking associates & analysts

PROCEDURE:
1. Introduction: Send an email with your Linkedin or CV, and availability
2. Interviews: 60-90 minutes, in-person (preferred) or via Zoom

RESEARCHER Marisa Rando is a PhD candidate in Sociology at the University of Cambridge

GET IN TOUCH:
mmr59@cam.ac.uk
www.linkedin.com/in/marisarando

SUPERVISED BY: University of Cambridge

INTERVIEWS HELD NYC: SEPT - DEC 2026 SF: JAN - MARCH 2027

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 08/09/2026

I don’t want to dunk in any one person, as I see this argument a lot, so I’ll post a screenshot rather than quoting it, because this sentiment is common. Peter Thiel has a philosophy degree. Lots of these guys have liberal arts degrees. Credentialism & reverence for institutions won’t save us.

PEOPLE WITH LIBERAL ARTS DEGREES: so while i see there is utility to the system, i'm more or less morally opposed to their current constructs and have big concerns over the business structure and environmental impact
WEB CODER: so i met God today, 2/3

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vortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 08/09/2026

Being able to write code without being able to do some level of critical sociotechnical analysis is like being able to write code without knowing how to test it.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I want us all to become more intolerant to bullies in our daily lives.

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jentrification ♎ @jentrification.com · 05/09/2026

i want you all to look at how my neighbors are responding to him. see with your own eyes, not what folks are blogging about.

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Honestly, the audacity of saying this while trying to purge the country of Haitians based on a lie he knowingly told is demonic.

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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 03/09/2026

The world’s richest man is a transphobic white supremacist federal contractor with a breeding compound and he materially supports one of the two US parties with as much money as he can and their opposition really ought to focus on stopping him for continuing to do that.

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