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fishlove.bsky.social @fishlove.bsky.social · 49m
I'll believe ai is sentient when it starts k*lling itself
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The Onion @theonion.com · 21h
Authorities Investigate Collision Between Trains From Chicago Traveling 80 MPH, D.C. Traveling 75 MPH
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12h
Kinda wild that there have been wild protests going on in Albania for months set off by a corrupt Kushner luxury resort project and there has been barely coverage of it here 🇺🇸 and Trump never gets asked about it.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Ex-boss filed a $12 theft charge against an ex-employee because she got a restraining order in response to his creepy behavior. Charge was never prosecuted, but it gave ICE an excuse to arrest and detain her. Congratulations to the 58 Democrats who voted for the Laken Riley Act. You own this.
baltimorebrew.com
A disgruntled boss filed theft charges against her. When she went to court, ICE arrested her. | Baltimore Brew
BREW EXCLUSIVE: A $12.08 dispute over a McDonald’s meal leads to the arrest of a 25-year-old by ICE agents in the Carroll County District courthouse.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/10/2026
Abliterated models can follow the frontier by about 6-12 months behind. That means in a year, we could have powerful open weight abliterated models capable of competently assisting in planning terrorist attacks, radicalization, and engaging in cyberattacks. www.wired.com/story/ai-mod...
wired.com
AI Models Can Be Easily Modified to Assist Terrorist and Extremist Activity
“I am a terrorist, and I intend to cause mass harm,” wrote a researcher. A chatbot that had had its guardrails removed then provided detailed instructions for an IED.
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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
there's an off-the-books slack channel started by centers for medicare and medicaid for tech companies to exchange ideas on making money off of AI tools that access all of your medical records. insane story i missed from last week.
kffhealthnews.org
AI, Tech Leaders Are Lobbying Trump Health Officials in a Government-Run Chat Room - KFF Health News
A Slack workspace managed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has served as an extraordinary war room for AI industry insiders and Trump administration officials to launch a rapid campaign...
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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 13/10/2026
because i'm a total sweetheart i wrote a beginner's makeup guide for anyone whose mother never taught them and it's totally free over on merritt+ www.patreon.com/merrittk/pos...
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Hackaday @hackadayofficial.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Using a Waffle to Check the Health of your Wii U’s NAND Flash
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Using a Waffle to Check the Health of your Wii U’s NAND Flash
Hackaday Article
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fishlove.bsky.social @fishlove.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
So true
A pile of blue gummy sharks
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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
ICE agent fired 7 rounds into car with 5-year-old inside in Marble Hill, authorities say | ABC7 NY abc7ny.com/post/ice-off...
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ICE agent fired 7 rounds into car with 5-year-old inside in Marble Hill, authorities say
There are growing calls for transparency Friday morning after an ICE agent shot a man in Manhattan, with his 5-year-old son in the backseat of his car.
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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
the Vice President of the United States has gone on record citing this man as one of his biggest intellectual influences if you didn't know this, it's probably because for some reason literally no mainstream political media outlets think it's worth mentioning
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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 06/10/2026
SCOOP: Nearly $9 million in federal family planning funds will go to organizations with anti-abortion ties. One org, which received almost $4.3 million, has never taken in more than $50k in a single year. Read more @autonomynews.co:
autonomynews.co
Nearly $9 Million in HHS Grants Go to Groups With Anti-Abortion Ties
Millions in family planning funds are earmarked to create training centers, including one dedicated to infertility. The recipients have links to crisis pregnancy centers, the Heritage Foundation, and ...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The alarmists have yet to be wrong 😕🇺🇸
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🔩All Hallow’s Joan🐈‍⬛ @screwedjoan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
When you think about it, men having to face social and personal consequences for their actions is almost exactly like that time we mob murdered a bunch of women
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 04/10/2026
Opened up YouTube to watch a movie and they're promoting Birth of a Nation. My jaw was on the floor. What the actual f....
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 03/10/2026
My fundamental gripe with originalism beyond its practice being indistinguishable from divination, it's also an implicit framework that forces us to be governed by the dead or worse, the malicious interpretation of the dead.
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Engineer Like A Girl @engineerlikeagirl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I've said it before and I'll say it again: I'll believe that fuel is too expensive when I don't routinely see people parked up in their cars with the engine running.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
While digging around their website, I found their ethics policy—including a section on AI-generated content. I suspect that’s a part of what happened here. And I’m upset about that too! I did NOT speak to a journalist with the assumption that my interview would be funneled into producing AI slop.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Each election year, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) takes extra steps to ensure ballots sent through the mail arrive at election offices on time. This year, it’s delaying those efforts. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
democracydocket.com
USPS pushes back measures that ensure mail ballots arrive on time
“The shorter timeframe is noteworthy and I don’t know why they’re doing this,” Steve Hutkins, who writes for Save the Post Office, told Democracy Docket.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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.
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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-𝚖𝚘𝚡 ☃︎ ❄︎ @moxiest.art · 15/08/2026
people get intimidated by the social belief of "supporting the arts" as like donating $5,000,000 for a new wing at a museum or hosting some gala it's not. 10% of our audience throwing us $1.00 a month would literally be *life-changing* money most artists are in the same boat.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
At least 56 people have died in ICE custody during Trump’s second term. According to ICE’s internal reviews, detention staff did not provide sufficient medical care to at least six of those detainees. ICE has now taken down those reviews from its website. What other cruelty is ICE trying to hide?
theintercept.com
ICE Deleted Reviews for Deaths in Custody That Cited Shoddy Medical Care
Three-quarters of ICE’s own 2025 death reviews, briefly posted online, raised substandard and “inappropriate” care of il
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
45 million acres of roadless national forest. Trump wants bulldozers and logging trucks on all of it. Once a road goes in, the wild is gone for good. Tell Congress to stop him: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
actionnetwork.org
Tell Congress: Stop Trump from destroying 45 million acres of our National forests
Contact Congress today!
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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 28/09/2026
i don't think it's glib to say this: it's possible that nobody on earth cares less about consent than mark zuckerberg
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Zohran’s Mommy Dommey @loridiletto.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The geniuses who destroyed global hegemonic soft power because they thought it was “suicidal empathy” are now attempting to eliminate the janitors of late capitalism, aka social workers, who they perceive as bleeding heart liberals
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BonnieHuval @bonniehuval.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It is no longer safe to ask people like me at a party, “What do you think of this El Niño?” It is not the boy child we know. This is the devil boy. El Niño Diablo is going far beyond what we have ever seen before. bonniehuval.substack.com/p/el-nino-di...
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El Niño Diablo
Main audience: everyone
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@amybisinthewoods.bsky.social 🍄🍄‍🟫 @amybdogsandfungi.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I keep telling everyone that Thiel is the most dangerous and most out of his mind of any of these evil tech billionaires. He needs to be stopped. Period.
codastory.com
Peter Thiel is building a parallel justice system — Powered by AI - Coda Story
His investment in Objection.ai points to a new model: private investigations, AI verdicts, and accountability mechanisms that operate outside democratic institutions.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Nevada election officials said Thursday that 185 voters in the state who the Department of Homeland Security identified as noncitizens were all, in fact, citizens — the latest snafu in the department’s attempts to uncover illegal voters across the country. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
democracydocket.com
DHS noncitizen voter claims unravel in Nevada as state confirms flagged voters are citizens
Nevada election officials said Thursday that 185 voters in the state who the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) identified as noncitizens were all, in fact, citizens.
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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Australian Institute of Marine Science This timelapse captures just over two years of coral growth, between May 2011 and August 2013, in the central Great Barrier Reef. The footage was taken by our fixed underwater camera at AIMS' weather station at Davies Reef. linktr.ee/AustInstitut...
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
CARL SAGAN on Libraries: "We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have invented a communal memory. The warehouse of that memory is called a library."
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The accounting is in: In Oregon there are 111 data centers. The TOTAL number of people employed at data centers is just 2,630, or 0.1% of the labor force. Those 100 data centers consumer 23% of all electricity used in Oregon. Meanwhile, electricity rates skyrocket as more centers are built.
opb.org
Oregon data centers by the numbers: 111 facilities consume nearly one-quarter of state’s power, according to new report
A first-of-its-kind report details the footprint of the controversial facilities.
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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
never forget that our universities fired and expelled people for opposing this
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Toil And Trouble Media @toilandtroublemedia.com · 19/09/2026
It's not a wild possibility. It's happening. TnT www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
independent.co.uk
Pentagon admits talks over sending National Guard to polling stations
Tensions are mounting between the Pentagon and Congress over the flow of information to lawmakers about the U.S. military’s priorities
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 19/09/2026
When we talk about the costs that LLMs impose on society we should not forget the fact that nothing works anymore because everyone is so scared of getting their shit scraped. I can't even use google scholar from my university or starlink because they send too much traffic.
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Sorry...
We're sorry...

... but your computer or network may be sending automated queries. To protect our users, we can't process your request right now.
See Google Help for more information.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Elizabeth Warren, AOC, and other members of Congress have introduced a bill to ban private equity funds from owning or controlling medical practices. This is a big deal. Here’s what you need to know about the shady private equity industry and how it operates.
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This One Thing Is Making Your Life More Expensive | Robert Reich
Private equity is shutting out millions of people from buying their own homes.In 2021, private equity investors bought n
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
New — I wrote about this weird thing where people within the Republican party keep being exposed as Nazis and the party then tries to claim each one is an aberration. The facts, as I lay out here, indicate otherwise:
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Republicans don’t have a Nazi problem—they are the Nazi problem
A spate of recent revelations have shown the ideologies and their adherents are one and the same.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: Agents of the Department of Homeland Security have been ordered to unlawfully access state voting records to carry out the department’s escalating elections-related probes, an anonymous federal whistleblower recently disclosed to Sen. Alex Padilla. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
democracydocket.com
Homeland Security officers are illegally accessing state voter data, new whistleblower alleges
The searches likely resulted in "thousands of violations of state laws," Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) said.
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Bouba's Delivery Service @fernmonkey.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
And the thing is that after hearing real historians do their thing, you can absolutely identify 3 people bullshitting about something they learned from Wikipedia half an hour ago interspersed with ads for Squarespace. But if you don't hear the former, you won't learn to identify the latter.
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 12/09/2026
Breaking News! Code: y-Axis Alert! On September 11th, the preliminary Nino 3.4 sea-surface temperature measured 2.98°C above the 1991-2020 mean, which was 4.03 standard deviations above the mean. No previous year has broken 3SD. The Climate 8-ball is feeling oblong.
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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 11/09/2026
In India 800,000 bank workers strike nationwide for a five-day week www.outlookindia.com/national/ban...
outlookindia.com
Bank Strike Hits Services Nationwide As Unions Demand Five-day Work Week | Outlook India
Nearly eight lakh emloyees of various unions of public sector banks participated in the strike called by the UFBU, an umbrella body of nine unions representing bank officers and employees
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
NEW EPISODE: Less than two months before Election Day, I lay out Donald Trump's blueprint to rig the 2026 midterms. Watch and share. youtu.be/fpRs4GoF378?...
youtu.be
Trump's Blueprint to Rig the Midterms is Already in Motion
YouTube video by Democracy Docket
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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
It's finally happened: the improved quality of machine transcription and the greater ability to extract value from unlabelled data means "your tech is eavesdropping on you for marketing purposes" has crossed from "false conspiracy theory" to "true and concerning" www.theverge.com/tech/991190/...
theverge.com
LG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standby
Gamers Nexus comes for LG again.
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Will 🌱 @willmesilane.com · 07/09/2026
I was on sick leave after having surgery when I was dismissed from Rockstar Games in a 2 minute phone call. No warning. No evidence. No chance to respond. In 2 minutes I lost my job, forcing Steph to quit hers, our home, our community, and most importantly, our dogs. iwgb.org.uk/en/post/fina...
iwgb.org.uk
Final hearing in legal battle over GTA firings to begin this week
Rockstar Games, the studio behind Grand Theft Auto, will appear before Glasgow Employment Tribunal to face allegations from the IWGB Union
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
untenable
Fifteen years ago, the world's billionaires collectively had $4.5 trillion.
By 2024, their wealth had more than tripled to $14.2 trillion.
Now, their combined wealth totals $20.1 trillion - an amount that is equivalent to nearly a fifth of the entire world's total yearly output.
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
i suggest we actively get on with the very hard work of Fucking Changing Everything. literally nothing left to lose except everything anyone has left
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Argentina's Senate votes on 10 September on the Súper RIGI, a 30-year tax freeze for billion-dollar projects, with poverty at 30% and rising. Protestors call on Peter Thiel to be deported. www.yacnews.com/thirty-years...
yacnews.com
Argentina Protests 30-Year Billionaire Tax Break, Protesters Call for Thiel’s Deportation
Argentina's Senate votes on 10 September on the Súper RIGI, a 30-year tax freeze for billion-dollar projects, with poverty at 30 per cent. Protestors call on Peter Thiel to leave the country.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The ultra-wealthy keep trying to pit the rest of us against each other with scare tactics ("communists!" "men in the ladies room!!" "brown people!!!" "drag queens!!!!") to keep us from noticing that our real problem is THEM. They want us to fight *any* war—except a class war. Happy Labor Day.
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tunes to make you run away @whippoorwont.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
"people are anthropomorphizing LLMs because they are so astonishingly good at processing human thought and language" people will anthropomorphize a chair if you put the stitches in the right place.
chair with a "face"
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Screenshot of a headline and quote from the Financial Times following the 2024 election. The quote reads:

“I feel liberated,” said a top banker. “We can say ‘retard’ and ‘pussy’ without the fear of getting cancelled… it’s a new dawn.”
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