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Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 5h

This weaving shuttle is a late-1800s tuberculosis vector, kept in the Textile Museum of Borås. Many textile workers caught the disease, and English employers found a correlation with a certain type of loom. You were supposed to get the yarn out of that […] [Original post on archaeo.social]

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 4h

Hey academics: 'By consuming AI products (which is optional, nobody – nobody – is forcing you to do it as an intellectually–independent academic, which you are, aren’t you), you are fueling these crises and are therefore actively sabotaging and annihilating the hard efforts and work of many of […]

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Koen Hufkens, PhD @koen-hufkens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

First they will sell you an AI subscription, so you lose your cognitive ability. Next they will sell you a sudoku subscription, to stay "fresh". See the grift

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Femme Malheureuse @femme-mal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

I see no dogpile below this post in which a crypto billionaire spouts about the benefit of dictatorship over democracy. Gee, why hasn't this drawn the mansplaining scolds a rejection of anarchy draws?

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Femme Malheureuse @femme-mal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

I continue to be disappointed by obituaries each day. This one is a bit late.

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Femme Malheureuse @femme-mal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Wish I could share the entire thread here but this is the top post and it's the most important bit. Read the Alt Text for links.

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Femme Malheureuse @femme-mal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Gee, how could they have become so blanking dumb, O'Reilly? He has not one iota of self reflection let alone feeling of responsibility.

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Femme Malheureuse @femme-mal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Yes. I've used LibreOffice for years now and I'll keep using it going forward. LibreOffice says ‘no AI’ is now a software feature Zack Whittaker 8:25 AM PDT · October 6, 2026 techcrunch.com/2026/10/06/libreoffi…

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The Funny Pages @thefunnypages.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

New comic strip found: Shrimp And Grits by Andy Marlette for Mon, 05 Oct 2026 www.arcamax.com/thefunnies/shrimpan… #comicstrip #shrimpandgrits

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Femme Malheureuse @femme-mal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

It's funny how I don't get scolded and mansplained if I say I support democracy though there are a wide range of examples of democracy — you know, a political theory which has been realized in broad variations of governance systems and economic systems. I suppose there's always a first time for […]

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

If I don't keep my car roadworthy and crash into yours, it hasn't gone "rogue", it's my negligence and I'm responsible. If my dog attacks you, I am liable. There are no rogue AIs, just negligent AI companies. Prosecute them.

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Femme Malheureuse @femme-mal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

I think this has to be the nicest, sweetest Fesshole entry I have ever read. I would love to meet Bunny Boy and listen to them go on about their rabbits.

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Trump calling his Super PAC “my money” will make bribery charges a snap. Both accepting and making. Like the entire crypto industry for starters. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/u...

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Facing Backlash, Trump Says His Super PAC Will Pay for Taxpayer-Funded Ads (Gift Article)

The president said that his PAC, MAGA, Inc., would pay for TV ads promoting him that had been paid for with taxpayer money.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026

Holy shit.

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Femme Malheureuse @femme-mal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

New York declares first US measles disaster emergency since 2025 surge By Reuters October 5, 20264:28 PM EDT www.reuters.com/business/healthcare…

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Femme Malheureuse @femme-mal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Gods forbid a woman doesn't fall in line, comply, or agree around here. Good thing at my age I've seen, heard, and experienced enough that all of my fucks have been sown, grown, been burned to the ground, plowed under, and the earth salted.

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IFTAS @iftas.mastodon.iftas.org.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

⚠️ #SW_ISAC_ADVISORY A series of ongoing phishing campaigns are actively targeting people using fake verification and support accounts. Admins will never contact you publicly for verification or access issues. Never open links from unsolicited posts […] [Original post on mastodon.iftas.org]

Example of a phishing post, including the text "ᴀᴜᴛᴏᴍᴀᴛᴇᴅ ꜱʏꜱᴛᴇᴍꜱ ᴅᴇᴛᴇᴄᴛᴇᴅ ɪʀʀᴇɢᴜʟᴀʀ ᴀᴄᴛɪᴠɪᴛʏ ᴡɪᴛʜ ʏᴏᴜʀ ᴀᴄᴄᴏᴜɴᴛ.

ᴛᴏ ʀᴇꜱᴛᴏʀᴇ ꜰᴜʟʟ ᴠɪsɪʙɪʟɪᴛʏ ᴀɴᴅ ᴀᴄᴄᴇꜱꜱ, ᴘʟᴇᴀꜱᴇ ᴄᴏᴍᴘʟᴇᴛᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴠᴇʀɪꜰɪᴄᴀᴛɪᴏɴ ᴘʀᴏᴄᴇꜱꜱ."

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

I had a meeting today that taught me that the SpaceX launch site in Louisiana is an even worse idea than I could have even imagined. You know what causes really intensely powerful vibrations in the ground? Rocket launches. And do you know what really powerful vibrations in the ground cause in […]

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Femme Malheureuse @femme-mal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

I do not subscribe to anarchism. It does not construct an alternative to a toxic system of governance; it advocates against any governance because governance is the state. 1/2

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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

FT - Vladimir Putin has instructed Russia's military leaders to abandon the rules of war, prompting a steep increase in strikes on civilian targets amid a major push to regain the advantage in the conflict, according to intelligence intercepted by Ukraine. www.ft.com/content/c2ad4cd1-a...

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Putin has told military leaders to abandon rules of war, Zelenskyy says

Ukrainian leader tells FT his Russian counterpart has given the order that ‘there are no rules now’

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aburtch @aburtch.shakedown.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

John Roberts, at home and at ease in his summer vacation home in a remote part of Maine. But no longer. Even cordial residents who have known him for years have started protesting, shunning the Roberts family and making life difficult for them. Paraphrasing, one resident said, you take my […]

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Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it.

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Femme Malheureuse @femme-mal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

RE: flipboard.com/@pbsnewshour/headline… This PBS News post and article are Exhibit A - example of demoralization that may suppress voter turnout. IGNORE ALL PROGNOSTICATIONS, POSITIVE OR NEGATIVE. JUST VOTE BLUE.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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GhostOnTheHalfShell @ghostonthehalfshell.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@zackwhittaker/1173… How is this even a thing? Mistakes happen on the other hand whatever happened to basic security hygiene training?

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bazouzabou @bazouzabou.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

"Ils rigolent sur l'augmentation des salaires, ils pleurent pour une vitrine" Paris, 29 septembre 2026. un des meilleur résumé

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Femme Malheureuse @femme-mal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

RE: flipboard.com/@mlivecom/michigan-ne… Don't hold your breath, James. You're not going to be governor because Michiganders don't want a Trumper to lead their state, regardless of the color of their skin. We'll […]

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I’m disgusted by today’s press coverage, which mostly just regurgitates the DOJ press release. The story should be that a) they indicted the guy who got shot, not the guy who shot him and b) previous attempts by ICE to blame shooting victims have all been lies, so no reason to believe this. Shame.

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is the compelling, moving, and no-brainer district court ruling the Supreme Court's six Trump acolytes just overturned. District court judges are routinely finding that Trump has violated the law. Then SCOTUS happens. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER ON DEFENDANTS’ MOTION TO DISMISS AND ON PLAINTIFFS’ MOTION FOR PARTIAL SUMMARY JUDGMENT MURPHY, J. This case is about whether the Government may, without notice, deport a person to the wrong country, or a country where he is likely to be persecuted, or tortured, thereby depriving that person of the opportunity to seek protections to which he would be undisputedly entitled. The Department of Homeland Security has adopted a policy whereby it may take people and drop them off in parts unknown—in so-called “third countries”—and, “as long as the Department doesn’t already know that there’s someone standing there waiting to shoot . . . that’s fine.”1 It is not fine, nor is it legal. Congress made it “the policy of the United States not to expel, extradite, or otherwise effect the involuntary return of any person to a country” where that “person would be in danger of being subjected to torture.”2 Congress decided that the Government “may not remove” someone to a country where her “life or freedom would be threatened” on account of

her “race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion.”3 These are our laws, and it is with profound gratitude for the unbelievable luck of being born in the United States of America that this Court affirms these and our nation’s bedrock principle: that no “person” in this country may be “deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.”

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Jack Smith explains that the phone records for some members of Congress "corroborated evidence that we had that the president, President Donald Trump and his co-conspirators were seeking to exploit the violence on January 6th in furtherance of their criminal scheme." www.youtube.com/live/zNc5VMP...

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LIVE: Jack Smith appears before Senate Judiciary Committee

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Femme Malheureuse @femme-mal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@arstechnica/117356… That's because FCC chair Brendan Carr is one of Trump's kneepad-wearing propaganda tsars -- the same guy who wanted to cancel Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel.

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Femme Malheureuse @femme-mal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

RE: flipboard.com/@newyorktimes/home-pa… Oh this is a fucking classic POS NYT head. Hope NYT Pitchbot tackles this one ASAP, it almost writes itself.

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Femme Malheureuse @femme-mal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

RE: flipboard.com/@electioncentral/the-… Utahns, what the hell is wrong with your senator? You could call him and yell at him about this offensive move - call the Congressional switchboard (202) 224-3121.

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petersuber @petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

Apart from lost lives: "In the last month alone, Ukraine's Ministry of Culture reported that 148 cultural heritage sites were recorded as damaged or destroyed… [In Gaza] an estimated 200,000 buildings have been damaged or destroyed by Israeli bombardment… More than 100 sites in Iran are reported […]

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Femme Malheureuse @femme-mal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

I mean, I knew a lot of cancers were caused by some viruses but wow. Vaccines can help prevent some of these already. Imagine if we could fund more anti-virus vaccines without being suppressed by freaks like RFK Jr. www.cbc.ca/lite/story/9.7361622

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Femme Malheureuse @femme-mal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

I still haven't used AI for any research. What I do requires an absolute certainty of information sourcing; I can't trust AI to obtain valid, vetted facts which won't get me sued. I still use Google but I append every search with the characters -ai to avoid AI content. I wish schools taught […]

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Femme Malheureuse @femme-mal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

RE: flipboard.com/@thenewsdesk/news-i8k… LMAO oh yeah, this will sway Iowans (who've see what happened to similar announcements in neighboring Wisconsin and nearby Ohio). Does he realize construction takes diesel and gasoline?

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:privTri: Volpeon :areonNSmol: @volpeon.at.icy.wyvern.rip · 28/09/2026

They might as well give AI products names like "Responsibility Remover 3000"

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Femme Malheureuse @femme-mal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

@stux Hallo! I have a moderation request, will follow this with a Private Mention containing details. Dank!

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Femme Malheureuse @femme-mal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

RE: flipboard.com/@vox/policy-kr7e51gmz… No. Fuck no. I'm putting the correspondent who wrote this -- Eric Levitz -- on my "problematic contributors" list. Police already have a LOT of tools at their disposal, many unregulated. They don't […]

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

Some of Trump’s lies are so bizarre or trivial that I can’t help but laugh,” Dale wrote. “On the whole, though, his lies have been deeply harmful to the country.” Dale gave the examples of the people spurred on to commit the Capitol riot, or those who died after receiving misinformation about […]

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Will Dormann @wdormann.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

www.techspot.com/news/114003-openai… Theory: AI companies intentionally have bad security practices, as it gives them stories to tell about how their project is too powerful for the masses.

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

Academia is so freaking weird. Part of my job as a professor is actually to occasionally cosplay as a medieval wizard while helping hand out scholarships.

Me, looking at the camera, wearing a black N95 mask and a completely ridiculous academic regailia getup. I've got a poofy purple hat with a wide brim and a gold tassle-rope thing dangling off one side, a blue and gold cape-like thing around my neck, and purple, blue, and gold robes with absolutely hilarious amounts of gathered ruffles on the shoulders. There's a bookcase with a bunch of physics and astro textbooks behind me.

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