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Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 15/08/2026

This started out as a vibe report about the trial and then became something else as @meganwachspress.bsky.social dug into her misgivings about the AI Apocalypse narrative, ultimately becoming a piece about why, perhaps, Oakland didn't protest the trial: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/more-and-mor...

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More and More, and Everyone Loses

When Musk v. Altman brought the tech imperial core to Oakland, Oakland shrugged

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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

It is quite telling that since the horrific story of Cesar Chavez re: sexual abuse broke earlier this week and calls to change the names of schools and other public spaces named in his honor, not one conservative voice has stepped forward to object that this would be tantamount to erasing history.

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 15/03/2026

Has anyone studied values drift over time among people who identify as fans of LLMs? The claim being not that LLM use is causing people’s values to change, but that forming a social identity around AI use is causing people’s values to change in the same ways as happens for other identities

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

I don’t know how to use chatgpt etc but I imagine it’s going to a website and typing “oh no what groceries do I buy please tell me false god for I am so weak I cannot go on” as your brain atrophies and leaks out of your ears from disuse and the machine is like “buy eggs milk bread and a horse”

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Dan Hon @danhon.com · 02/03/2026

The Pitt but it was the secretive rollout of APFS

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 28/02/2026

your enemies fighting each other can be useful but it doesn't make them your friends. anthropic doesn't want to help with hegseth's apocalyptic fantasy *because they have their own* you do not, under any circumstances, gotta hand it to them

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

(sea monster bio) You've probably seen my writhing in The Atlantic

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 21/02/2026

Last thought: decentralization as a social organizational attribute isn't a source of trustworthiness. It's an attribute one uses to route around situations of inherent untrustworthiness. But sometimes (a lot of the time) you need actual systems and networks of social trust.

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Ben Rosengart @fivetonsflax.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Every word is an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.

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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Even if, in what would be by far the most conspiracy brained reveal, Epstein convinced the creation of r/pol, 4chan wouldn't have become a major political force in the world if there weren't thousands of people willing to use the platform day after day after day.

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absolute horses @jcoglan.com · 28/01/2026

fwiw I don't think it is possible to build genAI in such a way that it benefits workers rather than capital because it is fundamentally based on non consensual extraction of labour to get going. what would it actually mean for the workers to own the means of production here

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Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

One thing that irks me: people keep calling the folks on the streets in Minneapolis protestors. They are not generally there to protest, they are there to observe and document. This is the product of organizing and mutual aid. It is telling that these acts of citizenship are seen as protest!

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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

One of my weird personal practices is that whenever I walk by a particular piece of my garden, I pull one weed. Sometimes I go out and do more, but I deliberately don't give myself the task of clearing that area "for once and for all", because that is not what is going to keep it free of weeds.

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david. @david.uncensored.zip · 17/01/2026

Rather than blocking every trump admin account individually, subscribe to this and block them all. it gets updated so the icegov account is already on it.

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blair @blairaf.com · 16/01/2026

Shared my thoughts on Canada's AI strategy for this new piece in @thewalrus.ca The tendency to frame AI as inevitable & autonomous "obscures what we’re really talking about, which is people—in business, in government, in civil society—and the decisions they make." thewalrus.ca/evan-solomon...

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Evan Solomon Wants Canada to Trust AI. Can We Trust Evan Solomon? | The Walrus

The journalist-turned-minister says the tech will make us richer and regulation should be “light”

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Ben Rosengart @fivetonsflax.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

It’s the Ezra Klein “Charlie Kirk was practicing politics the right way” argument again.

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Ben Rosengart @fivetonsflax.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Yes and this guy pushing “coalition” with a fascist is not nobody, but a genuine Dem macher bsky.app/profile/maxb...

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 23/12/2025

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

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Ben Rosengart @fivetonsflax.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

You use CheckMarx to see how you are vulnerable. I check Marx to see how you are vulnerable. We are not the same.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 10/12/2025

Care is the holy grail of automation. Because we need it to survive, but it's too labor-intensive to be profitable, even as it gets more expensive. And because we could make it a public good, but only by raising taxes on billionaires. So, be *very* skeptical when they claim AI can replace care.

Sam Altman makes his late-night debut, says he can't imagine 'figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT'

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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 02/06/2025

If you’re wondering what a “least weasel” is, they absolutely live up to the name. This is the least amount of animal you can have that can still meet the bar for “is weasel”

A least weasel. It fits in the palm of the hand.

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max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

New: Conde Nast fired four employees who were among a group that confronted the company's head of human resources on Wednesday over the decision to fold Teen Vogue into Vogue/recent cuts. Employees who were fired included journalists from the New Yorker, Wired, and Bon Appétit.

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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Starting in Milan, in 73, revolutionary groups would mass up, go into supermarkets and chase out the bosses/security, get on the loudspeaker and declare everything free. They would then make revolutionary speeches while shoppers gleefully enjoyed the discount. They called this "proletariat shopping"

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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 15/10/2025

Friendly reminder that Tidal ($10.99) is now cheaper than Spotify ($11.99), delivers better audio quality, pays its artists 2x as much, and generally doesn't allow AI slop. You can move your entire music library over in a matter of minutes.

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 15/10/2025

Hey look, Israel broke the cease-fire, twice, in two different ways, within 24 hours - again.

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Ben Rosengart @fivetonsflax.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

I am here to appreciate the way the judge wrote "[Z]eitgeist", implicitly criticizing counsel's German syntax.

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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

finally, after so many years of Trump, there's a bold, inspirational new dream for liberalism: a younger, less demented, and better-looking-in-a-suit president who can also revel in punishing the homeless while cameras roll

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Ben Rosengart @fivetonsflax.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

@yvonnezlam.bsky.social That PDF you shared — I couldn’t reply directly — is fascinating. Very “Seeing Like A State” in some ways.

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Ben Rosengart @fivetonsflax.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

@chasestrangio.bsky.social Is there a way to contact you privately? Thanks.

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