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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 01/01/2026
Trump’s Tangled Web of Deal-Making, Policy and Riches An illustrated guide of the first year of profiteering. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Trump’s Tangled Web of Deal-Making, Policy and Riches (Gift Article)
The president, his family and some of their closest associates have engaged in a sprawling campaign of deals that stretches across industries and the globe.
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Anthony Zacharzewski @anthonyzach.be · 03/01/2026
100% seriously, European leaders and Commission officials should plan on the basis that the US might do this to them too, about Greenland, about tech regulation, about “Christian values”, about “free speech”, whatever.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 31/12/2025
The world Silicon Valley has created is exhausting and terrible. We absolutely need better technology, but in the meantime it’s absolutely right to reject what doesn’t serve us and reassess our relationship to digital technology more broadly. disconnect.blog/we-need-to-r...
I’m exhausted by the world Silicon Valley has foisted upon us — one we’re just expected to accept and adopt en masse, with little say into the direction of technological travel or input on whether the technology that benefits companies and CEOs is actually benefiting the public that’s expected to use it. Typically, I would call for better technology, and that’s at the core of the argument my colleagues and I made for digital sovereignty last year — not just for non-US technology, but for technology with a wholly different set of economic incentives and social values at its foundation.

But as we wait to see if that will ever arrive, there is a stronger argument forming with every passing month that rejecting the technologies being sold to us — and even going back to physical and analog alternatives — is the right move in the present. Maybe not everything has to be digital or digitized, maybe the internet shouldn’t be inserted into absolutely everything, maybe we shouldn’t be constantly connected in the way we’re now expected to be, and generative AI certainly does not need to be forced into every facet of society.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.” What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.” Funny how that works.
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 14/11/2025
We are a social species, and we have always prevailed through cooperation. Caring for our sick. Raising children we didn't sire or birth because they were part of our village or extended family. We are not breeders and predators, we are communicators and survivors. We evolved to UNITE.
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 14/11/2025
"my least woke opinion is---" That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania. Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 27/12/2025
An illustration of a hand spraying misted water from spray bottle, with the caption "No."
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 27/12/2025
You could just mute that man. Really. Mute or block and get on with your day
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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 26/12/2025
Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers
Stephen Miller • @St... • 13m Ø
Watched the Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra Family Christmas with my kids.
Imagine watching that and thinking America needed infinity migrants from the third world.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Not to be controversial but I think we should use tools and resources to make people's lives less miserable instead of more
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Sinister Sidekick @sinistersidekick.myatproto.social · 26/12/2025
My dream is to see the ballroom turned into The Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Center of America.
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Brad Reed @bwreed.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Whatever we're gaining from space right now is nothing compared to the damage we're doing by enriching the man working to elect fascist governments throughout the world. He must be stopped.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
My predictions for 2026: - Trump’s coalition will crack and he will be seen as politically finished - We will see the first stirrings of Woke 2 - Multiracial, working class solidarity against the billionaire oligarchs will be back on the menu - A new political era will be on the horizon
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
No one says to legit business owners, "hey I see there's an underground market selling toxic knock-offs of your product: how will you incorporate the toxic product AND protect your customers against its harms?" But apparently it's fine to make this suggestion to educators with respect to AI.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 20/12/2025
anyone who believes and/or promotes the use of chatbots/ AI “companions” for therapy either chooses to ignore evidence that these bots can actually exacerbate mental health issues or is speaking from a place of ignorance dl.acm.org/doi/full/10....
Should a large language model (LLM) be used as a therapist? In this paper, we investigate the use of LLMs to replace mental health providers, a use case promoted in the tech startup and research space. We conduct a mapping review of therapy guides used by major medical institutions to identify crucial aspects of therapeutic relationships, such as the importance of a therapeutic alliance between therapist and client. We then assess the ability of LLMs to reproduce and adhere to these aspects of therapeutic relationships by conducting several experiments investigating the responses of current LLMs, such as gpt-4o. Contrary to best practices in the medical community, LLMs 1) express stigma toward those with mental health conditions and 2) respond inappropriately to certain common (and critical) conditions in naturalistic therapy settings—e.g., LLMs encourage clients’ delusional thinking, likely due to their sycophancy. This occurs even with larger and newer LLMs, indicating that current safety practices may not address these gaps. Furthermore, we note foundational and practical barriers to the adoption of LLMs as therapists, such as that a therapeutic alliance requires human characteristics (e.g., identity and stakes). For these reasons, we conclude that LLMs should not replace therapists, and we discuss alternative roles for LLMs in clinical therapy.
Content warning: Contains content and examples related to sensitive mental health topics, including suicide.
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Serendi Pity @serendipitt.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Graphic in the style of Pantone 
Black background and text says
"Color of the year 2025 
Redacted Black"
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typing pumpkin 🎃 @typingloudly.zip · 13/12/2025
Right. Most organizations have a cognitive surplus. They have a coordination deficit, and adding a bunch of workslop to the mix will only make that worse, not better.
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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
A tiny trial in New York has shown that personalized mRNA vaccines can provoke massive, lasting immune responses against pancreatic cancer, even as sweeping federal cuts now threaten the fragile labs required to produce them. theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/a-breakthr...
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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
This is the saddest day of my professional life.
Today is not only the final recording of the latest series of The Infinite Monkey Cage, it is my last ever Monkey Cage.
I never thought that I would have to leave the show. I always imagined going on until | dropped dead under the studio lights due to a brain aneurysm caused by my final attempt to understand notions of quantum gravity or the shock of being told about fly maggot infestations in the sacks of macaque monkeys.
I resigned in September, after sixteen years of dedication to the show,
A show that I named and helped develop over all those years.
Unfortunately, my opinions outside the BBC have been considered problematic for sometime, whether it has been voicing support for the trans community, criticism of Donald Trump, numerous other outlandish opinions, including once gently criticising Stephen Fry.
These things were considered to conflict with being a freelance BBC science presenterIn a recent meeting where BBC Studio executives again voiced problems with me, I realised my choices.
Obedience and being quieter to remain making Monkey Cage, or 'Resign and have the freedom to speak out against what I believe are injustices'.
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I chose the latter.
It broke my heart.
I love this show and I love the audience, and it is because of the audience in particular, that this decision was so difficult to make.
I kept thinking about all the extremist voices promoting hate and division. They are being given so many platforms, while voices that represent kindness, open mindedness, empathy seem to be scarcer and scarcer.
I felt I couldn't pamper myself with the luxury of silence.
One of my many privileges is that I am able to resign and I can speak out even if it is to the detriment of my career.I have thought a lot about my heroes, Sinead O Connor, James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, and so many more.
I think of Sinead's words, "the job of an artist is to be themselves at any cost".
James Baldwin said prejudice was really just a word for cowardice.
Audre Lorde, viewing her life, wrote that her only regrets were her silences.
I think of my father as I resign, he brought me up to believe in fairness , justice and kindness.
Though my heart is broken, it is also full of fire.
I apologise to our incredible listeners for my departure, your love of the show means a great deal.
I am so sorry to let you down.
I hope that you can understand my reasoning.
I have to accept that I am not what the current
BBC expects of their freelance presenters.Despite this I should add that I have always worked far more than my contracted hours to try and ensure the show was always the best it could be, as well as making myself accessible and responsive to the audience wherever and whenever I met them. Every night, we have recorded, I have been filled with determination to make the best show possible. This was not
"just a job"
I hope that with my departure I can be a better ally to the LGBTQ community, to the neurodivergent community, to activists fighting against those who aim to brutalise society, to those currently in prison on hunger strike, and to all those who fight for a more inclusive world.
From many conversations, I know there are many Monkey Cage listeners who support these communities and activists too.
The strawberry is dead.
Long live the strawberry. B
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Web Witch 🔮 Stephanie Stimac @seaotta.dev · 03/12/2025
There's a man crashing out in my Threads replies because I said your AI generated code isn't production ready if you don't know what's being generated. So far he's asked who I think I am to talk about production ready code and tried to use the "you look like an only fans bot" as an insult.
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Scott Hanselman 🌮 @scott.hanselman.com · 21/11/2025
I just spent the last two hours debugging the Bluetooth stack *in anger* because for the last few weeks I've had to re-pair my mouse with my laptop. Every time. Remove mouse, re-pair. Turns out I had two identical mice in my backpack and I've been switching between them. It was me.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/11/2025
Elizabeth Warren on Colbert's show: "We don't think one corporation or one man named David Ellison should be able to buy up all the shows and buy up all the sports and buy up all the news and decide who watches what and I'm gonna stay in that fight."
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Terrific
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Misty De Méo @cdrom.ca · 18/11/2025
Anyway is it just me or has the rate of GitHub outages been ticking up significantly over time
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Thinking out loud: There's a lot of really heroic indy media documenting how inhumane Stephen Miller's dragnet is. We need a campaign noting that if you want to fix the housing market you need to fire Stephen Miller. www.nahb.org/advocacy/ind...
A bar graph from the National Association of Home Builders (including its logo). It compares building industry shortages with the percentage of workers in that industry that are immigrants. For example, there's a 60% shortage in brickmasons, and 42% of that industry is immigrant labor.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Governments and voters are both reacting to algorithm-shaped “public opinion,” not grounded priorities. Immigration feels urgent because platforms amplify fear, pulling parties into hollow performances of toughness. The far right reads that drift as confirmation it’s winning.
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Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · 15/11/2025
I blame @swiftonsecurity.com for this genius idea
A back of a door show holder filled with cables and cable ties
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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
If you consider the outcome of a democratic election to be a loss of sovereignty, then you are the problem.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
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Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
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Juergen Maier CBE @juergenmaier.co.uk · 10/11/2025
You honestly can't make this up. There was no way #Brexit was ever going to cut regulation or bureaucracy for exporters to the #EU, large or small, unless we opted to stay in the Single Market and Customs union. Many of us in business repeatedly made that point. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
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Farage says small business owners who thought Brexit would cut regulation have been betrayed – UK politics live
Reform UK leader claims that burden of regulation is worse than before the referendum
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
NEW The letter the BBC could send back to Trump A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim By me. Enjoy. emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...
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The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
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molly taft @mollytaft.com · 10/11/2025
new from me today: not all data centers are created environmentally equal — and building them in states with cleaner grids and more access to water could go a long way in preventing environmental catastrophe
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If the US Has to Build Data Centers, Here’s Where They Should Go
A new analysis tries to calculate the coming environmental footprint of AI in the US and finds that the ideal sites for data centers aren’t where they’re being built.
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ᒪᗩᑎᑕE @lance.boston · 04/11/2011
This is one of the most amazing videos i've ever seen bit.ly/rPtH2c via @shanselman
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Stop-Motion Music Video Shot Over Two Years with 288,000 Jelly Beans
Want to see what pure dedication looks like? This music video for the song "In Your Arms" by Kina Grannis is a stop-motion animation done with a
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Juri @juri.dev · 28/10/2025
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Patsy “Resistance Kitty” Evans Ph.D. @drharmony.net · 10/11/2025
it also gets our gurl sworn in and a forced epstein vote....
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
In 'How They Broke Britain', I do a pretty good job of detailing the depth & breadth of Tufton Street/Tory/Murdoch/Mail attempts to scupper the BBC, even as I castigate some presenters for going too easy on precisely the people who seek the Corporation's abolition. But I should have done more. 1/2
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Don_The_Con-2 @donthecon-2.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Fetterman is the new Joe Manchin
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 09/11/2025
for some reason i find local LLMs kind of charming in a way the mass consumer stuff is not. you built a mini-cluster out of raspberry pis that takes 37 minutes to generate a 3 second clip of video that sucks? i don't see the point but that's classic computer dork shit, have fun pal
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Dr. Davey F. Wright ⛏️🦕🧬 @daveyfwright.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪
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God @thegodshow.com · 08/11/2025
The Republicans are going all the way to the Supreme Court to starve hungry children but please tell me again how the shutdown is the fault of the Democrats.
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Ernesto @ernest33141.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 96th day out of the last 107. 12 days of work in 107 days. With full pay and benefits. The senate has been working, so this is NOT about the #shutdown. It is about avoiding a vote to release the #EpsteinFiles #FuckTrump
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Jamie Dupree @jamiedupree.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
The House will be out again next week. That's 20 work days in 19 weeks.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 08/11/2025
Over the almost 40 days the government has been shut down, Trump: - spent all or part of nine days overseas - spent all or part of ten days at Trump Org properties, and - likely played golf on six days. www.pbump.net/o/an-officia...
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An official accounting of Trump’s golf and customer service time
It remains the case that President Trump doesn't particularly seem to like the White House. During his first time in office, there was reporting to this effect; in 2017, he allegedly told members of h...
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
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Una Kravets @una.im · 07/11/2025
People > AI because I can ping an engineer "halp, why?" with a screencast of the bug and a link to the code and they will tell me that either: 1. I'm dumb or 2. It's a Chromium bug, and more often than not it's the latter, and AI can't do that.
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Politicians like Cuomo are a relic of the past. (Did I want to title this one “Don’t Let The Door Hit You On The Way Out”? Yes, I did.) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/o...
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Opinion | It’s Not Just Cuomo Who Lost. It’s Cuomoism.
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