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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 03/10/2026

"Trump’s second term has been a protracted demolition of his image as a populist every bit as thorough as the destruction of the East Wing." ICYMI Mona Charen:

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Trump’s Populist Image Is Dead

That’s the price of corruption.

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Announcing the merger with Titanic footage is an incredible bit

David Ellison • @ellisonskyd... 2h
What once was the peak, is now just the beginning.
Paramount and Warner Bros. shaped over a century of culture. By combining them, we aren't rewriting history — we're equipping these iconic studios with a more powerful engine. Together, we are Skydance: a creative-first ho Show

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026

I suppose in the same way that eugenics was also the "biggest idea"?

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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Seriously 💥

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

“Nations crumble, democracy becomes obsolete, a tech-powered elite rules… threaded into the Trump admin, with VP Vance one of their own… When a nation is betrayed by its wealthiest citizens, existential crisis follows… tech fascism has global ambitions…”😕🤷🏼 #NerdReich

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Naomi Klein Is Spot On.......

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026

I'm not sure if y'all saw a CNN report on how the US had almost started WW3 with China based on fabricated information generated by a chatbot, claiming that a Chinese vessel was carrying components of nuclear weapons. That was an "existential threat" to humanity www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M Bender

The risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals

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The Tonearm @thetonearm.com · 29/09/2026

“I like to think of the teacher Pema Chödrön, who would say: analyse your anger. Go to the bottom up, to the roots of it, and you will always find the same thing at the root of anger: a broken heart.” Laurie Anderson — ‘I learned a lot through blunders. I’m not trying to live a perfect life’:

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Laurie Anderson: ‘I learned a lot through blunders. I’m not trying to live a perfect life’

The pioneering artist answers the Nerve Q&A about Trump’s threat to culture, how she finds inspiration – and her forthcoming first-ever show in Wales. Interview by Jude Rogers

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Caroline Baxter @convergingriskslab.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I spend a lot of time thinking about the importance of signaling in geopolitical and strategic stability. The "faith of Jerusalem" phrase is stuck in my teeth. 🧵

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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 20/12/2024

I get a lot of women who recently started their transition telling me it’s overwhelming to try to learn how to beautify/style themselves. And that’s true! Cis girls get to absorb ambient knowledge of this stuff growing up. Here’s a thread of some advice for ramping up, and tips that helped me.

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.

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zach @extrafabulous.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’m seeing a lot of posts about talking to your sons in light of the Cornell article. And yes. Talk to your sons. Here are some things you should say, based on anti-violence research about what they need to hear:

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If there's a smarter way - a more predictable, more reliable, *cheaper* way - why would you not take it? You won't hurt Claude's feelings because you pressed Shift + F6 instead of asking it to rename that function. codemanship.wordpress.com/2026/09/30/d...

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Deterministic When Possible. Probabilistic When Necessary. Human When Cheaper.

One inescapable conclusion I’ve had to draw observing our industry over the last couple of years is that the AI thing isn’t about productivity. If it was, teams would be looking for way…

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Buffalo Temple of Music, Sports, and Whatever @sethfromthe716.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Eric Schmitt is going to lose his shit when they tell him about the Chicago Blackhawks, Seattle Seahawks, Miami RedHawks, or the Kansas Jayhawks.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 29/09/2026

The Talmud teaches that anyone who sustains one soul, has sustained an entire world. For generations, Jewish New Yorkers have sustained our city. Today, we are launching the first-ever municipal Strategy to Combat Antisemitism.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Time for this classic again.

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Senator Amy Klobuchar @klobuchar.senate.gov · 29/09/2026

Before calling someone a “dirtbag,” the Senator should have had his facts straight. An apology is in order. Glad one of us knew the difference between the Atlanta Hawks and the Iowa Hawkeyes!

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I think there's a good case to be made that folks using LLMs to do things they already have tools for that are quicker, more reliable and require many orders of magnitude less compute have lost the plot. See also: prompts for code that are longer than that code.

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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 30/09/2026

This is a truly funny day in politics - Eric Schmitt confused NBA Hawks with NCAA Hawkeyes - In a politically consequential way! - And Amy Klobuchar is ball-knower, just roasting him - And we get to watch Katie Britt make this face Season 6 is the craziest Trump season yet

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."

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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

So Jimmy Kimmel had his wife parody Natalie Harp on his show. She played his unhinged assistant. It was as ridiculously funny as you might imagine.😅

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 29/09/2026

What's on your bookshelf that the Internet Archive doesn't have? There's an app for that. Scan a book's barcode or ISBN to see whether the Internet Archive needs it for preservation and digitization. Scan your shelves. Save a book. help.archive.org/help/donate-... 🧵

Four "Tools You Can Use" Upload campaign tiles arranged in a 2x2 grid. Top left, a cream and yellow tile with a folder icon reading "Upload" and "Contribute digital materials that you have the right to share." Top right, a cream tile with bold black text: "Upload digital materials to help preserve and share knowledge with people around the world." Bottom left, a cream tile with a screenshot of the Internet Archive's Upload files page, with the "UPLOAD" nav link and "Choose files to upload" button circled in red. Bottom right, a cream tile with bold black text, "Contribute digital materials that you have the right to share," and a small multicolor line-art icon of the Internet Archive's columned building.

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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 29/09/2026

Anthropic's IPO leak breaks down like this: In 2025, they had $4.6B in revenue against a $42B loss 2026 revenue is $11.5B with $518B marked to spend on building more data centers Meanwhile, they think they're worth $2T because they are on the cusp of birthing Digital Jesus (🧵)

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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 30/09/2026

I entered "play minecraft" into the America.gov chatbot and it is weaving the most bizzare, nonsensical story I've ever read Here's where we currently are

Let's go further back.

The seven billion billion billion atoms of the constituent's body were created, long before this
site, in the heart of a star. So the constituent, too, is information from a star. And the
constituent moves through a story, which is a forest of information planted by a Congress, on
a map created by a surveyor, that exists inside a small, private world created by the
constituent, who inhabits a republic created by ...

Shush. Sometimes the constituent created a small, private world that was soft and warm and
simple. Sometimes hard, and cold, and complicated, and due on the 15th. Sometimes it built a
model of the universe in its head; flecks of energy, moving through vast empty spaces.
Sometimes it called those flecks "electrons" and "protons".

Sometimes it called them "agencies" and "bureaus".

Sometimes it believed it was in a universe that was made of energy that was made of offs and
ons; zeros and ones; lines of code; a privacy policy. Sometimes it believed it was playing a
game. Sometimes it believed it was reading words on a screen. Sometimes it believed the hold
music was a hymn.

You are the constituent, reading words ...

Shush ... Sometimes the constituent read lines of regulation on a screen. Decoded them into
words; decoded words into meaning; decoded meaning into a next step, a checklist, a phone
number that actually rang, and the constituent started to breathe faster and deeper and
realised it was alive, it was alive, those thousand 404s had not been real, the constituent

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/09/2026

The Trump regime's new AI assistant confirmed Donald is a convicted felon, Biden won the 2020 election, and Trump is in the Epstein files before it stopped answering political questions.

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FlowerCrownedSylveon @fcsylveon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One. Hundred. Percent. (The entire thread.) We can augment an “agent” with *deterministic scripts*? How quaint. Meanwhile, the rest of it remains a glorified pachinko machine. (My apologies to pachinko machine manufacturers.)

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FlowerCrownedSylveon @fcsylveon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I fucking loathe this timeline and these monsters.

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ProgGrrl @proggrrl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

apparently in NY state: "Current law only recognizes assault if someone was drugged without knowing. If they chose to drink, they're not legally protected—even if they couldn't consent."

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Intoxication is Not Consent

🚨 Urgent: 2026 Action Alert Join thousands of New Yorkers demanding change NY's legal system lets perpetrators walk free when victims were intoxicated. NY A101/S54 would close this loophole — and we...

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is why more women don't come forward, and why more rapists aren't jailed. Because mostly-male cops and prosecutors find it more believable that a 20-yr-old would want to have sex with a room full of fraternity brothers than accept she was raped. What ever happened to common fucking sense?

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Carrying That Weight—Again

I can’t stop thinking about the Cornell rape case

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Trump has... -Run blatantly political ads using taxpayer money -Shuttered a longstanding arts & culture institution because he can’t put his name on the building -Hung banners with his face on them from a government building If you saw this happening in another country, what would you call it?

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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Introducing Gurpo

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Race Bannon @racebannon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There are now more than 2,000 events registered so far for No Kings: Vote Early on October 17, making it the largest early vote mobilization in history.Its not too late to get your town on the map or find a No Kings event location near you. All the links you need are at linktr.ee/nokingsfall

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No Kings: 10/17 Official: TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Threads | Linktree

Millions of people across the country have joined No Kings actions to reject unaccountable power. Now, we're taking the next step.

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FlowerCrownedSylveon @fcsylveon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“The disempowerment is coming from inside the house.”

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FlowerCrownedSylveon @fcsylveon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“This is really the moment where we need our men to be as horrified and as sickened as us. You need to be leading conversations about [this] as much as we are. How can you expect us to trust that it’s ‘not all men’ when in moments like this, many of you stay quiet?”

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the story is true @dcellgames.com · 28/09/2026

unbeatable is a video game that tells a story that can make you feel things. but also consider that i think people are more emotionally devastated by the minigames than anything that happened in the narrative

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VoteHub @votehub.com · 28/09/2026

NEWS — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear criticizes fellow Democrats who say transgender athletes should be barred from women’s sports. “That is not the party that we are. We start as a party of compassion and empathy.”

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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Said no woman EVER... 😆🤣

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