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James Stout @jamesstout.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Journalism is about holder power to account. If the power you’re going after right now is the secular hijab accessory person from twitter, you’re really just making content. like, how different are you from the people you’re laughing at when you’re tearing people down to get money and attention?
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
From @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and me on what we should take from the 2026 summer of AI hype: www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/22/1...
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Don’t be fooled by this summer of AI hype
Breathless claims about AGI and new capabilities fall apart pretty quickly under scrutiny.
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"Using some of my own work, I set out to clear up a few relevant concepts from theoretical computer science and computational cognitive science that can help to build conceptual hygiene and immunity against hyped claims about “AI” capabilities." irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2026/09/12/c...
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Computational complexity for hype immunity
Using some of my own work, I set out to clear up a few relevant concepts from theoretical computer science and computational cognitive science that can help to build conceptual hygiene and immunity…
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Our society's unfathomable cruelty to homeless people is not just morally unjustifiable, but more expensive than housing people would be. Cruelty against the homeless is an unaffordable luxury. Abandoning homeless people to avoid offending the Protestant work ethic is an unaffordable luxury.
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
A New Color (1/5🧵)
Page 1: A man is walking home, smoking a cigarette, being quietly trailed by a UFO above him. As he enters his apartment, two aliens watch from inside the ship. Alien 1, who has a large head, says, “that’s him. Let’s move.” Page 2: The man walks upstairs as the aliens watch from the entrance of the building. The man enters his apartment and greets his little dog. Suddenly there is a knock at the door.Page 3: he peers through his peephole, and sees the two aliens standing in the hallway. Alien 1 is holding a briefcase. From behind him, the voice of alien one: “don’t scream.” Page 4: The aliens are seated across the room on the man’s couch. Sadie is in her bed next to them. Alien 1 says, “you’re not in any danger. Have a seat.” The man looks at his dog and thinks, “sadie is unusually calm.” Alien 1: don’t scream, or it’s a problem.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 29/07/2026
there's 5 main reasons they want you to think AI is now self-aware and "goes rogue" 1. product marketing misrepresentation 2. props up insane valuations for a sector not making money 3. scares lawmakers into trash legislation 4. distracts from technofascism 5. distances execs from accountability
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firegravity @firegravity.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
DOJ designates refusing to have cybersex with Grok AI as Domestic Terrorism
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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
McConnell has released a proof of life photo
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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Happy Bastille Day
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 30/11/2023
posting this Classic over here in honor of the big man himself. adios bitch
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Deeply saddened to learn of the loss of my dear friend Satan, the Prince of Lies. Though we often disagreed about matters such as the appropriate role of torture in the afterlife, I will most remember how his quick wit and affable nature made our weekly golf outings a ritual. He will be missed.
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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
A beautiful day for Zionists to project their blistering, bottomless self-hatred onto Jews who refuse to assimilate into fascist norms:
Michael A. Cohen (NOT TRUMP'S FORMER FIX... & G
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Tikun Olam Jews ... and a daily reminder of the decades-long
failure of Jewish communal institutions to foster a strong
sense of Jewish identity (though in an environment virtually
free of open anti-Semitism, it was always going to be a
herculean effort) x.com/JewishWonk/sta..
€. Alex hull (a lIuTa @Jewishwonk -2h
This is a difficult thing for outsiders to grasp, but the Jews
involved in this leftist faction are mostly secular, assimilated,
and actively hostile to Jewish communal life.
Like socialist movements of the past, they are accepted while ..
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How do people who say stuff like this process the fact that the Mamdani sweep was often spearheaded by young Jewish staffers — and supported by many young Jews at the rank-and-file level?
Bethany S. Mandel
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Kapos.
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firegravity @firegravity.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
Honestly we're like a year out from MAGA Lysenkoism
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
The stonks meme but the caption says deals instead. The meme man looks very similar to the Deal Man in the quoted skeet.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school
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Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH
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The Onion @theonion.com · 28/02/2026
From The Archives:
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Chuck Schumer: ‘The American People Deserve A President Who Can More Credibly Justify War With Iran’
WASHINGTON—In a pointed critique of President Trump’s foreign policy leadership, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer stated to members of the press Thursday that “the American people deserve a presid...
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 26/02/2026
With this salvo, Kansas has escalated what will be a federal effort to establish a Jim Crow system of lawfully enforced second-class citizenship aimed at trans American It was already the case but now it's inarguable; anyone who doesn't fully support trans people is an enemy of all civil rights.
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firegravity @firegravity.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Claude, people don't believe that I'm productive because of you. They didn't believe it when I refused to measure and said they simply had to accept my conclusion because it's obvious to me Tell me the scientific theory of why they're snowflakes in an echo chamber (1/100)
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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Abolish ICE. There’s no reforming it. There’s no compromise. There’s only one way to rein in ICE’s terror campaign. Abolish it.
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 06/12/2025
A study on 1.7 million people in Hong Kong shows superior hybrid immunity to Covid in people who got vaccinated before infection vs. people who got infected first. "Our findings are a direct rebuttal to arguments for natural immunity," the authors write. doi.org/10.1016/j.va...
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Redirecting
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
I think Pecan Pie is one of those things that is divisive now because it’s just a blob of sugar with nuts on it but to someone 150 years ago who ate shoes it was probably like having 12 orgasms at once
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Beatrice Adler-Bolton @reallandsend.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Alice Wong taught us that disabled people don’t just leave memories behind—they leave infrastructure. Lineages of care. Methods of collectivity, survival. She named the connective tissue that holds our communities together, even across death, even across the losses that come too fast and too often.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 16/11/2025
A nice obituary for Alice, who was going to be recognized as one of The Post 50. I hate that we now have to live without this phenomenal woman. #GiftLink wapo.st/49WOdx1
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Alice Wong, disability rights advocate and wordsmith, dies at 51
Alice Wong, a transformational leader for disability rights and justice, who founded the Disability Visibility project to magnify disabled culture, died Nov. 14.
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furby hancock @furbyhancock.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Too late, Batman. Once this Tylenol floods the city's water supply, my wiki won't run out of editors ever again
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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
age 15: Computers are amazing! I'm going to do amazing things with computers! age 45: explaining to the fourth person this week why Chat GPT is not a replacement for google or the library or friends
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 27/08/2025
I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
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I Am An AI Hater
I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.
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Beatrice Adler-Bolton @reallandsend.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Family abolition is about ending the state’s exploitation of family as a stand-in for public infrastructure. No housing? Rely on family. No healthcare? Family. No safety net? Family. The neoliberal family formation is privately subsidized state abandonment dressed with a sentimental smokescreen.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
NYT editor doing a magical girl transformation sequence that ends with him becoming J J Jamerson shrieking about getting scooped by a substack nazi named NorseWulf1488, who he is in groupchat with.
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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 06/07/2025
I knew we were cooked as a society when everyone just sorta decided they were sick of dealing with Covid and everyone just decided to pretend like it wasn't a thing anymore.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
A Harvard study of IDF data finds that there are 377,000 people unaccounted for in Gaza. That estimate is six times the number of people normally cited as killed. Genocide. medium.com/@m4xim1l1an/...
Gaza Strip was approximately 2.227 million. The Garb report includes maps displaying IDF estimates for the populations remaining in what are considered the three primary enclaves.
The numbers are as follows:
Gaza City: 1 million
Mawasi: 0.5 million
Central: 0.35 million
The total of these official estimates is 1.85 million people.
Simple arithmetic reveals a horrifying gap: 2.227 million minus 1.85 million leaves 377,000 people unaccounted for.
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Philip Nelson 💻🧙 @blu3r4d0n.shutdown.network · 16/06/2025
oh no... they shuttered the United States Chemical Safety Board.... grist.org/energy/trump...
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Trump quietly shutters the only federal agency that investigates industrial chemical explosions
The Chemical Safety Board, a federal agency that investigates large-scale industrial chemical disasters, will close under Trump's orders.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 12/06/2025
A little more on RFK's new vaccine committee: Malone - claimed vaccines cause AIDS Kulldorff - promoted mass COVID infection Meissner - opposed vaccines and masks for kids Pebsworth - worked at antivax nonprofit Levi - FL Surgeon General cited his paper when recommending not to get COVID vax
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.
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Phil Williams @philinvestigates.com · 05/06/2025
DELETED: Trump administration deleted a webpage summarizing evidence that “undocumented immigrants are arrested at less than half the rate of native-born U.S. citizens for violent and drug crimes and a quarter the rate of native-born citizens for property crimes.” 1/2
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Screaming Pectoriloquy @caulimovirus.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
every college degree has only two pathways for careers for example, if you get a degree in psychology, you can 1) help poor and underprivileged people: $30,000/year 2) research new ways to make people gamble even more: $700,000/year
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 25/04/2025
PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
If you let the executive deport people to a foreign gulag just by pronouncing the word “terrorism,” then expect to be called a “terrorist” soon yourself.
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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
JD Vance Facetimes His Family
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Molly White @molly.wiki · 03/02/2025
an unelected billionaire storming into US agencies, installing his unqualified and unapproved lackeys, purging civil servants, seizing access to sensitive data and payments, unilaterally eliminating federal agencies: fine identifying the lackeys: illegal
FearNonelnc @RayInsideOut. Here's a list of techies on the ground helping Musk gaining and using access to the US Treasury payment system. Akash Bobba Edward Coristine Luke Farritor Gautier Cole Killian Gavin Kliger Ethan Shaotran 

Elon Musk @elonmusk. You have committed a crime.Same reply by Musk, but showing the original post was removed as a violation of Twitter rules
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Jack @jackinpogform.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Going to have to update this to 'when a cis person tries to murder a trans person.'
Zackfox tweet

'This is how the photos be lookin in headlines when a white man kills his entire family'

The accompanying image is of a white family on a jetski wearing shades and sporting a tan. Looking like they're having a great time with a top dad.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 31/12/2024
LeBron James Denies Son Receiving Preferential Treatment When Being Lifted Up To Dunk theonion.com/lebron-james...
LeBron James Denies Son Receiving Preferential Treatment When Being Lifted Up To Dunk
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дядя играет @rexadecimal.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Today is the last day you can post this picture
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borderless @borderless.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
BlueSky is trying to monetize so let's show them some numbers: Reskeet this if you refuse to pay for BlueSky+ until trust & safety decides to prioritize marginalized users. That's $96 / year of lost revenue for each reskeet...
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