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We are hope despite the times Cynical optimist An American who got out … living happily in Canada 🇨🇦 Eat the rich. Octavia Butler was a truth-teller. Free Palestine🇵🇸

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
this is all awful but by far the most diagnosable part of this is his obsession with beards as destructive to unit cohesion. having a beard is as bad as being a communist to Pete.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Link to "'Tremendous Hypocrisy:Dartmouth provost accused of using AI to write op-ed about AI use" in @bostonglobe.com. Our prez says, "Thoughtful people on our campus can and should disagree about those norms." What? We can disagree about violating ethics codes w/out disclosure? archive.is/JoJbA
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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“Food shortages…” www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
UK shares findings of damning climate crisis national security report suppressed under Starmer
El Niño poses critical threat to nations’ defences, says Ed Miliband in presentation to global foreign ministers
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"In 2016, Trump’s goal was to control the media. In 2026, it is to destroy the media. He recognizes it as a depreciated asset. Trump is a corporate raider doing what corporate raiders do. He seeks to destroy the media as he seeks to destroy the US itself." sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/gutting-th...
sarahkendzior.substack.com
Gutting the Fourth Estate
The US media were willing cogs in Trump’s machine. Now he’s tearing it down.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 24/09/2026
Millions of surveillance cameras watching our every move, but the cameras never seem to turn up any clues in these cases. Weird how that works.
abcnews.com
Cases of Black people found hanged in the US South are a reminder of nation's lynching history
The death of Tasia Fortune, a Black Mississippi woman found hanging from a tree, has stirred distressing memories of the grim U.S. history of lynchings
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I dont normally share paywalled links but if yr an academic you may have access to this @chronicle story by some sharp young reporters on an AI situation at Dartmouth. www.chronicle.com/article/dart...
chronicle.com
Dartmouth’s Provost Quietly Used AI in His Published Work. It’s Touched Off a Campus Firestorm.
The incident adds fuel to a debate at the college over its embrace of AI.
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WIRED @wired.com · 19/09/2026
You can’t always tell if someone is recording you with their smart glasses, but your phone can help.
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ZuckOff Is a Free App That Sees Meta Glasses Before They See You
You can’t always tell if someone is recording you with their smart glasses, but your phone can help.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The provost of Dartmouth, at which I teach, has been using AI to write both academic papers & national op-eds, according to brave reporting by @thedartmouth.bsky.social. Many students are already bitter about AI. This leaves us as faculty no ground to stand on. www.thedartmouth.com/article/2026...
thedartmouth.com
Op-eds, academic articles by Provost Santiago Schnell flagged as ‘AI-written’ by ‘near-zero error’ AI detector Pangram
Schnell said he used artificial intelligence for “making writing processes more efficient,” but that AI was not a “substitute” for his own “intellectual judgment or authorship.”
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Fables of the Reconstruction @fables.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The dystopian hellscape continues unabated
nytimes.com
It’s Raining Boxes: Amazon Drones Overwhelm a Texas Suburb
In Richardson, a fleet of drones has started to deliver goods quickly. But the noise is drowning out life for some residents: ‘We can’t live like this.’
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Thomas Fortenberry @thomasfortenberry.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
If the construction goes through, how long until Fascists are firing on citizens from the Trumpful Arch? Next time there is a Million Man March there will be mass casualties.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
In one of the most important convos I’ve had this year, I talked with Sherry Turkle about how our interactions with AI platforms, simulated companions, and artificial personalities can reshape us, diminish our capacities, and alter our very conceptions of ourselves and what it means to be a person.
truthout.org
Artificial Intimacy Is Changing Who We Are
“We start to judge our human interactions by what the chatbot can deliver,” says author Sherry Turkle.
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Earlier this week, I met the head of a nonprofit whose funding to help families stay housed has been sharply cut under this administration. Meanwhile, the U.S. is preparing a $2.8 billion arms package for Israel—including *forty thousand* 2,000-pound bombs—financed by American taxpayers.
theguardian.com
US set to deliver 2,000lb bombs to Israel as part of vast arms deal
Powerful bombs prompted such concern about mass deaths in Gaza that Biden officials paused delivery two years ago
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
It's rad that Meta used a David Bowie song to advertise their AI and it's about how there are only five years before the apocalypse and they surely had no idea because these tech assholes have literally zero comprehension skills. Got to hand it to them. Dumbest bunch of motherfuckers alive.
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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Solidarity with my Rutgers comrade Noura Erakat! Free Palestine!
aljazeera.com
Human rights lawyer Noura Erakat arrested at hearing against Israel Bonds
Palestinian human rights lawyer Noura Erakat was arrested in Florida after speaking against an Israel Bonds investment.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/09/2026
Trump: "The only control or 'guardrails' that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT, and the U.S.A. has that, in spades!"
The only control or “guardrails” that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT, and the U.S.A. has that, in spades! The Trump Administration has stopped AI “people” from doing bad, or potentially bad, “things,“ like Dario (Anthropic!), who is now pretending to be a “perfect little angel” - and we will continue to do so! We already have tremendous CRIMINAL and REGULATORY power over these companies! There is a SICK conspiracy going on against AI and Data Centers, and the only one that is happy about it is China. WHOEVER WINS AI, WINS! We are leading China, and all others, and will continue to do so. Conspiracy Theorists, Treasonists, Traitors, and Leakers, BEWARE! Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP
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Dann @dann1960.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
youtu.be/lII5SIzQrrA #J.MichaelLuttig Concern is growing about what will happen after the midterm election. State attorneys general say they fear ballots will be seized and retired federal Judge J. Michael Luttig says January 3rd is the day to watch out for. He joins The Weekend to explain why.
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Midterm aftermath: Conservative judge WARNS Trump's GOP 'biggest threat' to American democracy
YouTube video by MS NOW
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Deborah Rose ❌👑 @deberupts.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026
A conservative federal judge has told America: Republicans have a plan to steal Congress even if they lose the election. Judge J. Michael Luttig, a lifelong conservative who ruled under G.W. Bush, published a piece this week called “The Final Battle for America’s Democracy.” His warning: if […]
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
BOTH of these things can be true: • AI leaders are seeing capabilities in their frontier models that frighten them and have prompted them to urge “pacing” because of real world risks; AND • AI leaders want to control regulation if it occurs, externalize liability, and consolidate their positions.
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Kim @kimoco.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
NO NO NO We absolutely must get courts to stop this.
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Right answer.
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Green Country Collective @gsustulsa.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Darius
2h.

I got fired from AMC because whenever
someone ordered a small popcorn, I'd
"accidentally" fill up a large bucket and tell
them we ran out of smalls.

Now I work at McDonald's, and you better
believe you order a 6 piece, you're getting
8 or 9 nuggets. Order a 10 piece? There are
at least 13 in that box.

l'll keep doing this sh*t until the day I die.
F_ck these giant corporations. I'm here for
the people.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Ray Kump 
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X.com
We have to build Al that murders us, because if we don't, China will build it first, and I don't want to get murdered by a computer that speaks Chinese.
That would be ridiculous.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
There are already articles circulating trying to rewrite history and say America was great after 9/11 and united and thoughtful and just a reminder that that period was marked by intense and insanely racist hatred, paranoia, and a frothing desire for unhinged violence and oppression.
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WIRED @wired.com · 09/09/2026
The new Apple Watch includes several “intelligent” listening features that have privacy and security baked in. But the protections can’t change the facts of what the tools do. www.wired.com/story/apple-...
wired.com
Apple Doesn’t Want You to Worry About the New Apple Watch's Listening Features
The new Apple Watch includes several “intelligent” listening features that have privacy and security baked in. But the protections can’t change the facts of what the tools do.
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WIRED @wired.com · 12/09/2026
And if your tap water is undrinkable, you have no “constitutional right to truthful information” about it. www.wired.com/story/you-do...
wired.com
You Don’t Have a Right to Safe Drinking Water, Trump-Appointed Judge Rules
And if your tap water is undrinkable, you have no “constitutional right to truthful information” about it.
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 12/09/2026
The governor of America’s biggest blue state — now running for the Dem presidential nomination — helped tech oligarchs by vetoing Dem legislation to require those oligarchs to be able to shut off their AI if it gets out of control. I don’t think it’s possible to overstate how big a story this is.
levernews.com
Newsom Killed The AI Kill Switch
Before Big Tech researchers warned of a superintelligence doomsday, 2028 hopeful Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.) vetoed a bill that would have made AI “kill switches” mandatory.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
pay living wages for all workers. tax the shit out of billionaires. happy labor day.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Worth remembering this Labor Day: Manufactured exhaustion is a political weapon used by fascists to wear down public opposition and promote learned helplessness. Fatigue and sense of hopelessness in the current environment are not personal failings. Rest and community care are resistance.
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Essence of RBG 🦋 @rbgprevails.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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Phyllis Levin @nothing2lose.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/a-philadel...
thelettersfromleo.com
A Philadelphia Nun Sits With Unaccompanied Children at Texas Deportation Hearings
Sister Rose Kuhn drives to the Harlingen immigration court every week to pray beside children who face a judge alone, some as young as four.
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Gallifreyan Jedi @jediofgallifrey.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
everyone who said "you must reject the piker endorsement" and didn't say "you must reject the cheney endorsement" is a stupid asshole
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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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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This man is a fucking monster who limped away from Chicago's mayor's office because he'd become unelectable after closing 50 schools and half of our city's publicly funded mental health care clinics, and covering up the fact that Chicago cops murdered a teenager. Stop whitewashing his ass!
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
2026: Shackled abducted Black and brown humans crossing the Atlantic against their will, courtesy of the land of the free and the home of the brave.
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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
welcome to america 2026, where the only jobs are word theft organizer and concentration camp guard
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
HOLY SHIT DUDES fucking with the environment is now not just a sin (which Francis also said), it is classed as a direct fuck-you to God and a central tenet of the reasoning is the need to care for "our common home," i.e. you are morally obligated to think about the other people who also live here
americamagazine.org
Vatican theological commission defines ‘sin against creation and the Creator’ in new document
The more than 29,000 word text calls for ecological conversion due to “sin against creation and the Creator.”
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
“Questionnaire” by the late poet, farmer, and environmental activist Wendell Berry
Questionnaire by Wendell Berry
1. How much poison are you willing to eat for the success of the free market and global trade? Please name your preferred poisons.
2. For the sake of goodness, how much evil are you willing to do?
Fill in the following blanks with the names of your favorite evils and acts of hatred.
3. What sacrifices are you prepared to make for culture and civilization?
Please list the monuments, shrines, and works of art you would most willingly destroy.
4. In the name of patriotism and the flag, how much of our beloved land are you willing to desecrate?
List in the following spaces the mountains, rivers, towns, farms you could most readily do without.
5. State briefly the ideas, ideals, or hopes, the energy sources, the kinds of security, for which you would kill a child.
Name, please, the children whom you would be willing to kill.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 28/08/2026
Measles-linked deaths since RFK Jr became HHS Secretary now surpass those recorded in the previous 20 years combined.
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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
So much news out of the US is like "Breaking: tuna recalled over screw contamination"
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Alan Rosenblatt @drdigipol.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Trump and RFK, Jr. cut so much funding from food safety inspections that the fact that white rice is recalled for contaminants is not surprising, but VERY upsetting. And now Trump wants to allow every cattle rancher to process their own meat. That is like guaranteeing food poisoning.
the-independent.com
Check your cabinets: White rice recalled in 13 states
FDA issued an update to the recall
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Shut it down.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 31/08/2026
The US government is canceling several cyclospora research studies in the midst of the biggest cyclospora outbreak ever which has made tens of thousands sick and killed two people. Make America Healthy Again.
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Living in a neoliberal dystopian hellscape @breakify.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Realize that climate change is already killing people on a daily basis all around the world, including in the US.
nbcnews.com
At least 15 missing at Grand Canyon after extreme flash flooding
Authorities are searching for hikers and campers who may have been trapped in the area.
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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
techno-optimists befuddled by declining popular support for “the robot that tells you to kill yourself”, “the pervert glasses“, and “the camera network that stalks you”
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notgoingwell.bsky.social @notgoingwell.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
You’ve got these viscerally unpleasant billionaires who are more or less open about being Nazis who want to create an authoritarian surveillance state enforced by a robot army to create a permanent underclass complete with Eugenics and pedophilia. And nobody in power dares say: “they are bad.”
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Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
the united states calls itself a democracy because every few years its brainwashed population votes in a popularity contest between two right wing ideologues who hate them
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Dave Conrad @dconrad.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I have just signed an executive order renaming Captain America to Captain Ontario
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WIRED @wired.com · 28/08/2026
About 1,600 federal employees who work at the General Services Administration have been forced to relocate to a new office building that workers say has mice, a caved-in bathroom ceiling, and drinking water that needs to be run for 5-10 seconds before it is clear.
wired.com
Mice, a Caved-In Ceiling, and Cloudy Water: The GSA’s New Office Is Falling Apart
“Do we need to look at the ceiling before going to the bathroom? Can we actually trust the water is safe to drink?” asks one GSA worker.
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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
it is not a big chance by any means but there's a very slight possibility we'll get to see a US navy ship actually mutiny
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