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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026

Here's a funny thing about the right to vote: it wasn't won by voting.

Two suffragists in period dress, ceremonially putting ballots into a ballot box. The background has been replaced with an elaborate collage of 19th C printing-press parts. The ballots are glowing with radiant spikes. The face of the ballot box has been replaced with an Nvidia Vera Lynn GPU.

Eᐯᗩ ᗩᑎᗪ TᕼE ᑕᗩTᔕ @flowinchange.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Cotton Mather, the Salem and Boston witch hunter ideologue, became later in life a proponent of smallpox inoculation (after loosing his wife and two children to measles) against an opposition of other Puritan leaders and physicians.

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Nathalie Maréchal, PhD @nathaliemarechal.net · 17/09/2026

So you just learned about the AI cult, huh? Here is the longform explainer you need to make sense of the very, very strange ideas driving tech policy in 2026. Buckle up, it’s a wild ride. www.techpolicy.press/what-policym...

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What Policymakers and the Public Need to Know About the Cult of AI

Nathalie Maréchal asks, why are we betting the economy and the future of democracy on cult-like beliefs?

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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Straight from OpenAI's Brockman and Microsoft's Nadella - 'doom loop' for the entire web [as they vacuum up and substitute the work of journalism and threaten their economic foundations]. /2

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 17/09/2026

For cynics, this is all a shuck, a scare-story to convince the rubes that their modestly useful utility software is really a nascent "superintelligence" and thus capable of replacing all their workers, which means they should fire all those workers and start sending their salaries to AI companies.

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John Woodside @woodsideful.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

to be more specific I should say revenues collected by government, but the screenshot says it. Bottom line the public pays out and suffers more than it collects from this industry effectively debunking the claim we need fossil fuels to counter US trade aggression.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 09/09/2026

To live in an age of monopolies is to live in an age of regulatory capture, in which your government routinely fails you in terrible ways to benefit elites and insiders.

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Gloria Steinem died with fewer rights than she had during her lifetime. That fact needs to be front and centre of every media report, every dedication, every discussion of her death.

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Eᐯᗩ ᗩᑎᗪ TᕼE ᑕᗩTᔕ @flowinchange.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Our elders are leaving us. We have to find the direction and passion ourselves now.

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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Yes, this is a plug. Last month, I started using "incogni" to wipe my data from online data brokers, since this is becoming a prevalent security issue. So far, I'm pretty impressed. If you want to try it, use this code and we both get a discount: incogni.cello.so/6kB4DRHAfU7

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Data Broker Removal Service | Incogni

Data brokers are collecting, aggregating and trading your personal data without you knowing anything about it. We make them remove it.

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Red Barns Charles Pachter 2015

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 18/08/2026

Today, those trustees announced that *they had sold all of Spirit's employees' data to Google*, for use in AI training: www.axios.com/2026/08/17/g... 42/

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Google pays $10M for Spirit Airlines emails, chats, documents

The tech giant plans to use the data to improve its AI models.

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Eᐯᗩ ᗩᑎᗪ TᕼE ᑕᗩTᔕ @flowinchange.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Today is the black cat appreciation day! Patrick is appreciated every day.🖤

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Eᐯᗩ ᗩᑎᗪ TᕼE ᑕᗩTᔕ @flowinchange.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

ANHELINA HOLEMBIVSKA Island Poppies and Nightingale, 2023

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Nuclear and fossil fuel power plants have a problem that wind and solar don't: Heatwaves across Europe have forced power plant shutdowns in six countries due to low river levels and high water temperatures.

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Heatwave forces power plant shutdowns across Europe, putting electricity grid under strain

Six European Union countries have had to shut down some of their power plants due to lower river levels and increased water temperatures caused by heatwaves. The solar eclipse on August 12 also threat...

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

This is my personal Sistine Chapel. Photo from my collection, no date/info.

Black-and-white photo of a light skined man laughing while lying on a carpeted floor. He is reaching out one arm to a short haired black cat, which has clamped its paws and mouth down over his hand in an attack.

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Eᐯᗩ ᗩᑎᗪ TᕼE ᑕᗩTᔕ @flowinchange.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Grzegorz Jacek Olejniczak Maybe more sun, 2026 Acrylic and oil on canvas

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Isabella M. Weber @isabellamweber.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Bread is the oldest politics there is. From the Roman grain dole to the French Revolution: when the price of essentials spike, societies are ripped apart. The fight over affordability has always been the fight over how we organize our polity. 2/

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Incoming tides, Stoer 2020 by Beth Robertson Fiddes, contemporary landscape painter whose work concentrates on the Scottish highlands, and Western Isles #WomensArt

Painting of a wild seascape with wave entering between rocks and rock pools under a stormy sky

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Put another way, the entire adult userbase is going to have to upload their IDs to sketchy third-party companies and link their identities to their online activity to stop a few dozen kids from accessing a platform that is mainly left-leaning news and commentary. What problem is this solving?

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 13/07/2026

The inverse relationship between doing something useful and making money is deeply ingrained in our economic wisdom. 20/

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 08/07/2026

librarians once again showing they’re heroes of the community

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Jenny Lee Shee @jennyleeshee.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I read a beautiful poem today. Antidotes to Fear of Death Rebecca Elson

A poem in white lettering on a starry sky background.

Sometimes as an antidote
To fear of death,
I eat the stars.

Those nights, lying on my back,
I suck them from the quenching dark
Til they are all, all inside me,
Pepper hot and sharp.

Sometimes, instead, I stir myself
Into a universe still young,
Still warm as blood:

No outer space, just space,
The light of all the not yet stars
Drifting like a bright mist,
And all of us, and everything
Already there
But unconstrained by form.

And sometimes it’s enough
To lie down here on earth
Beside our long ancestral bones:

To walk across the cobble fields
Of our discarded skulls,
Each like a treasure, like a chrysalis,
Thinking: Whatever left these husks
Flew off on bright wings.

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Stephen Maher @stephenmaher.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Canadians should know this history, what I think of as the real history of the revolution, because it led to the creation of Canada in a way. I'm grateful to the Toronto Star for giving me some space to write about it today. t.co/5re4gUxMvt 17/19

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Klondike River, Yukon Toni Onley 1990

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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin @bethsawin.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

So, if the heat, the floods, the endless wars, the precarity is awakening something that might feel like panic, the action is less to invent a new solution than it is to soften your gaze, or lengthen it. Shift your image of solution into a way, not a what, and find your way to the way.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 18/06/2026

And if Canada builds its own local AI to sub in for Chatgpt, Claude and Grok, it'll *lose tens, if not hundreds of billions of dollars*. Worst of all, a national AI strategy does nothing - not a solitary thing - to protect Canada from Trump shutting down its ministries, firms, or tractors. 32/

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

I'e long wondered what goes on at that newspaper to so reliably produce these genteel surrenders to right-wing talking points and so often distorts the realities in ways that pander to racists, misogynists, etc. Sometimes as contrarianism, or spiciness, or a one-sided pretense of bothsiderism.

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Schera Wyss 💀 SLUG HUMAN @scherawyss.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

This might be one of the most insane scandals in game history When Pokemon Go players scan PokeStops, theyve been unknowingly building a detailed visual model of the world which is being sold to a military contractor to build a no-GPS positioning for the new generation of unmanned killing machines

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(I'm sorry I don't have time to type this whole thing as alt text my poor thumbs owww)

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