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OmenSigil @omensigil.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

As if bombing people/babies/nations isn’t enough, Putin has to bomb/helpless animals who depend on people to live as well. He has no heart. There is nothing dear to him.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Donald Trump, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner think the way to negotiate with these barbarians is to offer them business deals.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/09/2026

The ICE agent who shot Araujo in a Houston is named GREGORY FEATHERS. Make sure everyone knows.

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Scrat Scrobbler @scratscrobbler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This article at no point explains its own headline. That's kinda a major editorial error, NPR. Here's some coverage that at least explains what SCOTUS did. www.kcra.com/article/save...

kcra.com

Supreme Court lets Trump administration use revamped federal voter eligibility database for now

The Supreme Court is allowing states to resume using a controversial federal tool to check voter eligibility before the November elections.

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Alex MacGregor @alexmacgregor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Great. Now when this database is breached, hackers will have all your info including full names, address, social security number and probably drivers and passport numbers. 🎁 🔗 Supreme Court Allows Federal Voter Identification Tool Ahead of Midterms www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/u...

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Supreme Court Allows Federal Voter Identification Tool Ahead of Midterms (Gift Article)

Critics of the Trump administration system to monitor the citizenship status of voters had raised alarms about privacy and improper voter purges.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 24/07/2026

Oh look. Texas also made voter registration errors. They were caught and fixed, all without needing the SAVE act or a national voter roll database. CRAZY. www.kxxv.com/news/local-n...

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Election errors found in Texas voter database ahead of November election

A campaign worker found errors in Texas's voter database. Here's what it means for McLennan County voters ahead of the November election.

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j0yj0yj0y.bsky.social @j0yj0yj0y.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Yes. The more people are unable to perform basic critical thinking tasks for themselves the more dependent they will be on the product he is selling.

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.

And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.

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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 24/09/2026

These people are absolutely 100% disconnected from the material reality that their tech-obsessed lifestyle is destroying the ecosystem we depend on for food. Food doesn't grow in the ground for them, it appears on their plate. Capitalism is a brain disease and a death cult

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We cannot have a rational debate about technology.

As long as we rely on screens rather than on forests and sunsets to soothe our pain, we will fight to defend the screens, not the forests.

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shorttimer.bsky.social @shorttimer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Whistles and a polite ask of badge numbers do not SAVE US. ABOLISH ICE.

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Four Five Fire @fourfivefire.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s... Family of Iranian twins sentenced to death and decades in jail ask UN for help Taraneh and Romina Rahimi were charged with ‘waging war against God’ after joining protests against Tehran regime

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Family of Iranian twins sentenced to death and decades in jail ask UN for help

Taraneh and Romina Rahimi were charged with ‘waging war against God’ after joining protests against Tehran regime

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Betsy Cazden @betsy-cazden.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

They confiscated additional badges this morning so this excuse is at best incomplete.

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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

What's next?

AI generated image of the Washington Monument bristling with guns, after Trump announced his plan to make his "Triumphal Arch" a weapons emplacement for drones and snipers.

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Four Five Fire @fourfivefire.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... judge declines to block transfer of wildlife refuge land to Musk’s SpaceX Environmental groups vow to continue opposition to deal that would expand site for Elon Musk rocket company

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US judge declines to block transfer of wildlife refuge land to Musk’s SpaceX

Environmental groups vow to continue opposition to deal that would expand site for Elon Musk rocket company

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Four Five Fire @fourfivefire.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

www.jezebel.com/male-birth-c... "After all, there’s no real money to be had in a single shot men can get to act as effective birth control for 10 years … that is also easily reversible at any time. Not when you can sell women a pill that needs to be taken every day like clockwork for decades..."

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Give It a Shot Documents the Long Quest for Real Male Birth Control

There's plenty of evidence to suggest that safe, effective male birth control has been figured out since the 1980s. So where is it?

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I suppose this is what happens when you ask an idiot to explain economics.

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country that we have a Deficit with, which is most of them, we would make, at least, 1.5 Trillion Dollars a year. The word "Deficit" is nothing more than a fancy word for LOSS. We are "carrying" almost every country in the World, and that cannot go on any
OF AMERICA, AND FAST! President DONALD J. TRUMP

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The Fed has voted unanimously to raise interest rates to 4%, its first rate hike since July 2023, because of rising inflation. Trump, the man who caused the inflation, has been pressing for a rate cut.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 16/09/2026

The man who won't let you have paid sick leave or health care returns to Congress after getting free health care and 90 days paid sick leave

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WatchYourRepsTN&SC @watchyourrepssc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

What a cry baby!!!!!!!

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Half of Russia’s six largest diesel-producing refineries are now either shut down or operating at sharply reduced capacity after Ukrainian drone strikes. That’s not just an inconvenience. It’s a direct blow to the fuel supply that keeps Russia’s war machine moving.

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Lee 🖇️🇺🇸🦋🐾🇨🇦🇺🇦 @characterfirst.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Humans are dying in concentration camps on American soil

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Apparently it is of no concern to any Republicans that Trump and Bessent are taking in billions of dollars from plundered Venezuelan oil and nobody knows where the money is, where is has been going, if anyone is getting proceeds, with no accounting of any of it made available.

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 16/09/2026

Experts share best practices for considering water filters – whether you’re drinking municipally treated water or relying on a well

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Go with the flow: do you need to filter US tap water?

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 16/09/2026

HEY EVERYONE - NEW REPORT!!! NVIDIA is the largest company by market cap on the planet. But it hides key climate data, while claiming AI is going to be a 'net benefit' for climate. We (8 groups) put together the first ever broad critique of NVIDIA's climate record: ketanjoshi.co/2026/09/16/n...

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Here's why you can blame the government for your high interest rates. They're running deficits at war and recession levels, even with unemployment low. All that government borrowing puts upward pressure on interest rates, making loans more expensive for the rest of us. youtu.be/DLsWHniyg0Q

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Four Five Fire @fourfivefire.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... Because his name is magic? "The center’s Donald Trump-installed leaders argued that putting the president’s name on its facade may be the only way ⁠to avoid imminent and “certain fiscal collapse”

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Kennedy Center leaders say Trump’s name on facade may avoid ‘fiscal collapse’

Center’s Trump-installed leaders also say it is on brink of bankruptcy and could close as early as Tuesday

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 15/09/2026

Turkish authorities cracked down on multiple LGBTQ+ groups and individuals early Sunday morning, detaining dozens of members, breaking into association offices and raiding popular hangouts. to.pbs.org/4xoedta

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Turkish authorities launch crackdown on LGBTQ+ and HIV support groups

Turkish authorities cracked down on multiple LGBTQ+ groups and individuals early Sunday morning, detaining dozens of members, breaking into association offices and raiding popular hangouts.

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Four Five Fire @fourfivefire.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

www.theguardian.com/environment/... Tidal wave’ of Pfas being launched to satisfy AI industry, campaigners warn Big manufacturers planning to produce more of the forever chemicals

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‘Tidal wave’ of Pfas being launched to satisfy AI industry, campaigners warn

Big manufacturers planning to produce more of the forever chemicals to meet demand from datacentres

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Four Five Fire @fourfivefire.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

www.theguardian.com/technology/2... ‘We must slow the pace’: CEO of Anthropic calls for an AI slowdown In a social media post, Dario Amodei proposed a plan including third-party evaluations of AI systems

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‘We must slow the pace’: CEO of Anthropic calls for an AI slowdown

In a social media post, Dario Amodei proposed a plan including third-party evaluations of AI systems

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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/...

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LG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standby

Gamers Nexus comes for LG again.

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Four Five Fire @fourfivefire.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

www.theguardian.com/technology/2... Anthropic researchers say AI could cause human extinction by 2030 One researcher who resigned said many in industry believe that without regulation AI could kill off humanity

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Anthropic researchers say AI could cause human extinction by 2030

One researcher who resigned said many in industry believe that without regulation AI could kill off humanity

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Amethyst Sky 🌲🌼 @amethystsky7.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

US girls confirm Meta smart glasses *are* being used to record them. Boys record them openly, and mock and harass and taunt them too. Police have done nothing. (They are Sex Crime Glasses first)

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Andrew Quinn🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇸🤘🏻😸 @andrewharlequinn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

American police are the most incompetent cowards you could ever not wish for; they're apparently constantly afraid, of everything.

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Four Five Fire @fourfivefire.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The only good thing about Meta glasses. (But now cops will just take off everyone's glasses just in case.)

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