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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 16h
There is a bleak sort of pleasure in telling people who bring up AI in casual conversation, “Actually, I’m one of the authors AI stole from. Not an exaggeration. The judge ordered them to send me a check.” It hits them different when it’s a real person saying it.
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 9h
Working on a piece for Defector about Warhammer 40k, something I've wanted to write for about five years, and my research revealed that Games Workshop contributes more to the UK's total economic output than the entire fishing industry.
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Awkward Zombie @awkwardzombie.bsky.social · 18h
#awkwardzombie #1000: The Big 1000 www.awkwardzombie.com/comic/the-bi...
a snip from the latest AZ
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IMEU Policy Project @imeupolicy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
On Thursday, Rep. Joaquin Castro, alongside 42 other cosponsors, introduced the most comprehensive bill yet that would sanction illegal Israeli settlements and ban trade with settlement goods. Tell your representative to sign on at: imeupolicy.org/sanctions
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isaac @sevier.io · 11h
Really important point i hadn't seen yet, which is that AI data center proposals are concentrated in gas reservoir basins, bypassing federal permitting altogether by avoiding the need for interstate pipelines. All of the smoke about transmission costs reforms look different in this light.
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Senate permitting bill would be a gift to data centers and their massive gas buildout - Oil Change International
In short:
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 18h
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich: “The thorough cleansing that we are carrying out now in southern Lebanon is unprecedented. “They have nowhere to return to. Look at how it looks. “And by the way, the world isn’t stopping us.”
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 22h
Accept ‘bad things’ in return for benefits of AI, says Sam Altman
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Accept ‘bad things’ in return for benefits of AI, says Sam Altman
Boss of OpenAI calls for a regulatory light touch because of the ‘good stuff’ the technology can deliver Sam Altman says he believes the world should accept “bad things” happening with AI in exchange for the benefits of the technology. The chief executive of OpenAI cited hacks, scams and “other bad things that will happen” in an interview that sparked an instant backlash from critics of the major AI companies. His comments came after one of his company’s safety experts resigned, saying at the weekend that its “culture is broken”. Continue reading...
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 05/10/2026
All prisoners should have the right to vote while in prison
Norman Rockwell's Freedom of Speech
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 15h
Palestinians with Israeli citizenship are no longer asked to pledge allegiance, but to renounce their own history. Palestinian Knesset candidate Sami Abu Shehadeh did exactly that before Israel's Supreme Court, and was pushed out anyway. mondoweiss.net/2026/10/the-... #Palestine #Israel
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 17h
This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 17h
Nearly 38 percent of Palestinian students in East Jerusalem now study the Israeli curriculum, while the rest of the students' textbooks are being censored line by line, stripping mention of Jerusalem, prisoners, the Nakba, and freedom fighters. mondoweiss.net/2026/10/isra... #Palestine #Israel
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geographyofrobots @geographyofrobots.bsky.social · 20h
NORCO is $5 on Steam until Thursday October 8th.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
If you’re still wearing a mask, thank you. Please know you’re not alone. Many of us still mask, test and isolate when sick. Being the lone masker can be difficult, but your long term health is worth it. As a high risk, immunocompromised person… I see and appreciate you.
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✨MARANDA✨ @randanopterix.bsky.social · 22h
HE'S OUR BASTARD 🖤
Artistic depiction of the pro wrestler Pac. He is standing proudly in the center of the image, his head illuminated from the back with light.
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Eric Holthaus @ericholthaus.com · 01/10/2026
68% of voters want the US to take ambitious action on climate change!
Respondents were asked to choose between two statements related to the U.S.’s role in global climate leadership, with a bipartisan majority (68%) selecting the following statement: “The United States should take ambitious action to address climate change, even if other countries do not. We should lead the world on this issue and set the example for other countries to follow suit.” 

In contrast, just 25% of voters prefer the following statement: “If other countries do not take action to address climate change, the United States should not either. It is not fair for us to act while other countries contributing to the problem are sitting still.”


Despite political polarization reaching a historic high in recent years, Americans aren’t divided on ensuring clean air and water for every community. As the U.S. celebrates Earth Day, many Americans say the holiday holds personal importance and want the U.S. to prioritize clean air and water for all and take ambitious action on climate change.
https://www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2026/4/22/this-earth-day-two-thirds-of-voters-say-ensuring-clean-air-and-water-for-all-should-be-a-top-priority
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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
henstomper

oh my god the slot machine company says i have to keep putting coins in their machine or Im Gonna Get Left Behind. thats so scary. and it has to be true because they know more about slot machines than i do

oh my god the slot machine company says if we dont give them money to build the world's biggest slot machine the chinese are gonna build it first and win all the prizes. and then there wont be any prizes anymore
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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 05/10/2026
We're in the middle of a race to the bottom, where authors use LLMs to generate more and more proposals, so funders use LLMs to screen proposals to keep up with increasing submission volumes. At some level of "LLMs evaluating LLM-generated submissions," you've gotta ask what we're even doing here.
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Washington AI Resistance @wa-air.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Across the state, folks have come out to call for a moratorium on the energy, water, job, & quality of life vampires called "data centers". “Silicon Valley’s motto is ‘Move fast and break things’ … and legislators are slow to catch up,” says @evansutton.bsky.social. Stop Big Tech bullying NOW.
seattletimes.com
Protests in Seattle, across WA call for pause on AI data center boom
At least 19 protests across the state called for a moratorium on big data centers, amid a slew of concerns around AI, privacy and resource consumption.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 04/10/2026
“For all the claims Amazon makes about investing in carbon-free energy, it conveniently leaves out that it is constructing the single-largest source of climate emissions in the United States in Pecos, Texas" - @stand.earth arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
arstechnica.com
Amazon’s $1B plan to combat data center backlash draws more backlash
Amazon praised for ending NDAs but slammed for downplaying data center pollution.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Lucien Lazare, Jewish fighter in the French Resistance, has died at 101. After fighting the Nazis, he was rejected by his synagogue later in life for translating an article saying “Israel, today, is nothing but a formless mass of corruption, oppression and injustice.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/w...
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Lucien Lazare, Jewish Resistance Fighter in Occupied France, Dies at 101 (Gift Article)
He and a small troop of French Jews worked with the Allies to distribute supplies and fight the Nazis, ambushing a German train and liberating a city in the south.
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
As in Gaza, now in Lebanon. www.commondreams.org/news/lebanon...
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1 in 5 Children in Lebanon Facing Daily Hunger Due to Israeli Assault: UNICEF | Common Dreams
​Israel's occupation of southern Lebanon has forcibly displaced more than 1.1 million people, including around 329,000 children.
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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
all this is both foolish and unnecessary
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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
But let us to the story.
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paypay 🎨 @starsprlte.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
🐩my love, your 'passion' for 'fashion' makes my heart 'pound'... will you take it home tonight? 🌭RAWR meanz I LUV U in DINOSAWR!!! XD #dogonline #furry #yuri #art
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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I can’t believe we’re back to medieval level conflicts like “local merchant princes attempt to bribe theologians and the Pope’s advisors so the Pope will issue a favorable proclaimation”
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Minx Marple @minxmarple.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Slants of light tonight / the differences the dark makes
Houses, sky, trees, cherub. This needs a bit more messing withWhite flowers in the windowCar park, trees, what are we waiting for?Brick, light on a fence, trees, cloud
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Daiz @daiz.moe · 03/10/2026
Remember when Crunchyroll tried to make their subtitles significantly worse a year ago? They backtracked on it at the time, but I suspected they were just delaying their plans to shift from Aegisub to OOONA, and sadly, it seems I was right: Crunchyroll is actively pushing OOONA subs to users now.
Screenshot of Crunchyroll English subtitle metadata for #I'm Looking For a Zombie episode 1, showing "Exported from Ooona Tools" and "Internal Delivery"Screenshot of Crunchyroll English subtitle metadata for Vertex Force episode 1, showing "Exported from Ooona Tools" and "Internal Delivery"
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Felix Hamer • electricfelix @electricfelix.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026
There's only one Fickling "Nowadays, LNG is failing on all three. It’s never been clean,these days it’s not cheap, either: Just buying gas for an existing plant can cost more than building a brand-new solar-plus-storage system from scratch" Bloomberg's very best🌞🔋 www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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roterote @roterote.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I think Greg is correct, but Americans need to be aware that Magyar’s Tisza government is aggressively going after every Fidesz official, removing them, using every lever of the state to yank them out of power. This is far more aggressive and rapid than anything proposed in the US so far.
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Stephen C. Rea @stevierea.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The “ceasefire” will be one year old next week. Since then, Israeli strikes have killed more than 1400 Gazans
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Ian rudderbutt @reasonablemustelid.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Rico Charges @NoChorus

Once at my granny's house my uncle excitedly said a James Bond film was on the tv. My Da said "sure they're all the same, a load of lads shooting at one lad then a mountain blows up." My uncle got really mad at how reductive that was then became furious when the mountain blew up.


Rico Charges @NoChorus • Sep 29, 2021

My Da, of course, knew it was the one where the mountain blows up at the end. This was a foundational lesson which illustrated to me that walking the path of the hater means knowing more about something that people
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 03/10/2026
In addition to the unrelenting bombardment, Palestinians in Gaza are at risk of losing their lives and limbs through the unexploded ordnances that the Israeli army leaves behind. mondoweiss.net/2026/10/unex... #Palestine #Israel
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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Getting ready for our 10/4 day of action for a statewide data center moratorium in Washington! Find your closest action and join us! @wa-air.bsky.social @troublemakers.bsky.social actionnetwork.org/event_campai...
Overpass banner sign that reads

Stop AI data centersOverpass banner sign that reads

Moratorium now
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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:
Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads: 

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."
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Emily Sanders @emdashsanders.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A glimpse into the stakes of Monday's SCOTUS arguments in Suncor v Boulder for just one community: Colorado ranchers, whose livelihoods have been wrecked by fires & drought. Ranchers depend on local govt services -- unless govts can recover climate costs, they say they may not be able to continue
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 02/10/2026
How on Earth did I not read this yet? really interesting and honestly kind of brazen modelling of the entire lifecycle - downstream, data centres, upstream use - of AI. Puts AI industry at 1.1% of total global energy, about the same for global emissions. More than 10x previously stated estimates
Final Results and Concluding Thoughts
Adding it all up, we estimate that the AI sector is responsible for almost 1,900 TWh of global energy consumption in 2026. And after accounting for additional factors that we did not explicitly analyze, like the construction of new electrical substations, robotic-centric warehouses, water reclamation facilities, and other infrastructure specifically designed to support the data center buildout, it’s likely that total AI-driven global energy demand is already closer to 2,000 TWh. Even at 1,900 TWh, the AI share of total global energy use in 2026 would be roughly 1.1%. We also estimate, after adding up all the sectoral numbers and landing at roughly 650 million metric tons of AI-driven CO2 emissions, that the AI share of global GHG emissions in 2026 stands at about 1.2%, with total annual global emissions sitting at roughly 55 gigatons of CO2-eq, albeit with a wide range of figures from EDGAR to UNEP (anywhere from 53 gigatons to 58 gigatons depending on a broad array of different assumptions). As we’ve discussed already, these numbers are much higher than many others in the media and academia have guessed on the basis of simplistic calculations and naïve assumptions.

The projections up to 2030 are obviously far worse and imply a catastrophic impact to global ecological stability. ChatGPT alone “processes approximately 2.5 billion prompts per day worldwide.”122 The scale of AI growth and diffusion globally is truly astounding, and the industry’s corresponding ecological footprint will soon rival that of major countries like India. It's not farfetched at all to think that the AI share of total global energy demand could rise to something like 5% by 2030, rivaling and in some cases surpassing the footprint of established dominant industries. The potential consequences of this extra resource pressure on biodiversity, global warming, freshwater scarcity, and biogeochemical cycles could be absolutely staggering and devastating for the…
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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.social
wired.com
ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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Abigail Larson @abigaillarson.com · 02/10/2026
“I have been in love with no one, and never shall," she whispered, "unless it should be with you." 🩸 Carmilla, by J. Sheridan Le Fanu
illustration by Abigail Larson inspired by the 1872 "Carmilla" novella by J. Sheridan Le Fanu depicting Carmilla leaning into Laura whispering passionately to her. Laura looks a little concerned by what she hears.
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Hisham Zerriffi @hishamzerriffi.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Pew tested AI synthetic surveys against actual survey data. Conclusion: “This experiment taught us that, at this time, AI models are not an adequate replacement for traditional polling on topics of broad public importance.” This is an all time bad idea. No need to hedge with “at this time.”
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Can AI Stand In for Human Survey-Takers? Not Really
Synthetic surveys using digital twins do a poor job estimating the public mood and are especially error-prone for some subgroups, including Republicans and Black adults.
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 02/10/2026
Israel is preparing to give settlers access to a main Palestinian thoroughfare in Ramallah, a move that would bring checkpoints and gates to one of the West Bank’s last spaces of free Palestinian movement and affordable urban growth. mondoweiss.net/2026/10/isra... #Palestine #Israel
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 02/10/2026
AI weapons systems are already here. Algorithms must not decide who lives and dies | Kenneth Roth
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AI weapons systems are already here. Algorithms must not decide who lives and dies | Kenneth Roth
Israel’s conduct in Gaza shows the danger of using AI in warfare. Humans must remain at the center of wartime decisions
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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Art thou a silk-worm? Dost thou spin thy own shroud out of thyself?
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 02/10/2026
If you, btw, would like an example of a place where data centres are *actually* being restricted by legislation, go look at Denmark - where they are now last in the grid connection queue, prioritising socially valuable load growth (like electrification, heating, cooling, new homes) first
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Denmark Puts Data Centers Last in New Grid Law
Denmark's emergency grid law puts data centers last behind households and green-transition projects, formalizing rationing that began in February 2026.
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WIRED @wired.com · 02/10/2026
A hospital giant and radiology network turned to Palantir to streamline scheduling, but nurses and other staff say the new software is causing errors, burnout, and frustration. www.wired.com/story/health...
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Health Care Workers Are Tired of Cleaning Up Palantir’s Mess
A hospital giant and radiology network turned to Palantir to streamline scheduling, but nurses and other staff say the new software is causing errors, burnout, and frustration.
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Josh Lappen @jlappen1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
In the year I've been working w/ air pollution regulators on data center on-site emissions, I've seen almost no acknowledgement of this trend from energy-side advocates of data center buildout. This isn't just bad actors-it's a corporate playbook and a roadmap to a future of unconstrained emissions.
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yixura @yixura.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
in 2023, the iconic sycamore gap tree was cut down by vandals. dozens of saplings were propagated from its seeds and planted over the uk. the stump is still alive and as of september 30, 2026, is sprouting new shoots.
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England’s Beloved Sycamore Gap Tree Is Showing Signs of Life, Three Years After Vandals Chopped It Down
Numerous leafy shoots are now sprouting around the base of the tree’s stump, which is located near Hadrian’s Wall in northern England
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yixura @yixura.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
life will be beautiful again [ 🤼 / #art / #aew ]
a drawing of benjamin "pac" satterley in black casual clothes, hat and glasses, sitting on the sprouting stump of the sycamore gap tree, holding one of its saplings in a small flower pot
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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I frequently see "AI" boosters implying that LLMs are simply an innate and superior part of coding now, inescapable, and that literally all programmers agree with them. And, well. That, too, is a form of propaganda
Looking at my software peers in 2026 I see fatigued faces, I see frustration, and I see a lot of people looking for a way out of an industry that seems poised on the brink of collapse. LLMs are being pushed on us at every turn, most people seem at best frustrated by them, and ultimately they seem to appeal most to people who see the production of software as a purely mechanical means to an end. They are antithetical, however, to the idea of software as a craft, or something requiring both initial and ongoing care. As an expression of the soul.
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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Worth note: at the time of this atrocity Anthropic was the LLM powering the Maven Smart System in partnership with Palantir. Don't let Dario's bullshit fool you. There is no "good" frontier AI company.
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