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Andreas Lindh @andreaslindh.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
As someone who works in the "breaking into devices" business I have to say that: 1. This is fear mongering, 2. LLMs generally act on input (there is no own awareness or will), so someone has to actually tell them to try to breach devices. Also, Anthropic could just, like... stop.
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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 12/10/2026
Your daily reminder that more people are playing and buying PC games than ever before. This is a growing industry. The only reason the industry is struggling is because the people are the top are vacuuming up all the money made to divert it to AI in an unhinged all-in multi-trillion-dollar gamble.
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Mat Brunet (AniMat) @matbrunetvo.com · 06/10/2026
The fact that David Ellison is another story of a privileged guy who failed to get into art / entertainment because money can't buy talent explains SO MUCH about who he is today.
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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This is incredibly important. I feel deeply that curbing sexual violence will come from raising social expectations of men, not from ‘educating’ them. I fear this is an unpopular view, because people are afraid to face up to the scale of the issue.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
People forget that J6 was successful. Everyone who participated was let out of jail and the guy who perpetrated it is President again. There were no consequences. They have plenty of incentive to do a much bigger and worse version.
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onion person @junlper.beer · 06/10/2026
one of the deepest sicknesses in the world are the people who feel personally attacked over other people getting the same rights as them
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 06/10/2026
The theft and fraud and disinfo continue to gush out of these companies as an unending flood of excrement while they desperately point at imaginary Terminators on the other side of the room.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026
This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead
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Hold Me Closer, Giant Dancers @giantdancers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"Capcom isn't replacing real people with ai, they are only replacing QA engineers with AI" fuck you, fuck Capcom, and Fuck AI.
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Fascist Dem Tracker @fascistdemtracker.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Just also want to note that trans people and advocates for the unhoused have told people for years that Gavin Newsom is trash. If this is what makes people realize how awful he is, great, but I really hope this is also a wake-up call to listen the first time someone tells you who they really are.
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Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
man, fuck this guy
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Approval ratings don’t matter when democracy is being intentionally dismantled, opposition is captured, and there’s already an intraparty sect being prepared that will just disavow the unpopular leader and move discourse even further into fascism.
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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 20/09/2026
Not really sure where a bunch of liberals got the idea that they can’t win without throwing trans people in the garbage, but they’re stupid and cruel and wrong. If you want a human sacrifice so damned bad put gavin newsom in the wicker man
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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A not fun fact about disability that nondisabled people seem to be unable to perceive: Disabled people are more likely to live in poverty and less likely to be able to afford preventative care or routine treatments for conditions that start small and snowball.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I know people still can’t wrap their heads around the Patel testimony today but this is the story that first came to my mind.
ibtimes.co.uk
UN and Rights Groups Say Rape Using Trained Dogs at Israel Detention Sites Is Systematic, Endorsed at the Highest Level
A UN-backed report alleges systematic sexual violence against Palestinians in Israeli detention, including rape involving trained dogs, as part of an organised state policy. Israel denies the allegati...
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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Hey the reason us straight cis allies are LIVID about Talairico and Acton and others throwing trans folks under the bus is that gay marriage is next alongside women's rights and if you can't fight for our trans brothers, sisters, and thisters/throthers, you don't deserve to fight for anyone
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
There are already articles circulating trying to rewrite history and say America was great after 9/11 and united and thoughtful and just a reminder that that period was marked by intense and insanely racist hatred, paranoia, and a frothing desire for unhinged violence and oppression.
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Matt 'Wib' Ward @wib.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
We used to call hypothetical thinking machines AI, but then conmen started calling the plagiarism machines AI so the hypothetical thinking machines had to be called AGI, now the conmen are calling the plagiarism machines AGI. I am starting to think the conmen may not be being entirely honest.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
1. Elon Musk is spending millions pushing Americans to VoteSafe, which bills itself as a voter registration site but is actually a digital surveillance machine.
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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I am sympathetic to Silicon Valley guys ascribing human-level consciousness to AI because if I had to talk to people from Silicon Valley all day I’d probably have a real low bar for sentience too
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Because ignoring it, and pretending you aren’t adding another bullet to your Covid roulette gun every time you get an infection, is part of the denialism 80% of this country is living in.
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 07/09/2026
Possibly the most American news of all time
local12.com
Prison inmates donate more than $4,000 to pay children's school lunch debt
Residents at the prison contributed $3,810 of their own money, while Kansas Department of Corrections employees added another $457.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 06/09/2026
The reason we spend so much money being awful to unhoused people is the system needs a visible reminder of what landlords and bosses are threatening you with.
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Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling @rubenbolling.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I wonder what Elon Musk’s politics are. It’s so hard to tell.
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
🎯🎯🎯🎯 Every study initiated on the subject makes it clear that the most effective, cheapest (yes, CHEAPEST, most inexpensive, highest return on investment) forms of aid are direct cash payments with zero means testing, and on-request right-to-housing. These are just facts.
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Frankly, I do not care if the mass-murdering Nazi is miserable. www.thedailybeast.com/musk-insider...
thedailybeast.com
Elon Musk Insider Exposes His ‘Miserable’ Existence
The world’s richest man isn’t the happiest.
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Anna Phylaxis @quatoria.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The painful thing is how those of us in the disability community predicted this outcome - both that ignoring COVID and taking no measures to restrict it's spread would lead to a massive increase in disability, and that those disabled would be blamed for their own conditions.
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Fascist Dem Tracker @fascistdemtracker.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The process for getting disability through Social Security is such a prime example of this. Nearly everyone gets turned down on their first time applying. The entire process, with appeals, can take between 1 to 3 years. And during that time you CANNOT work.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This guy wanted to charge the ICE cop who blindly fired his gun into a house with a child inside, then lied to justify the shooting. DHS also tried to deport a witness, and publicly slandered the man who was shot. Trump's people blocked the prosecution, then fired the prosecutor for going public.
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Mr. Blabalino 🇳🇴🇺🇸💙 @blabalino.com · 02/09/2026
Remember this going into the midterms.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.
Not only is this system astonishingly untested, USPS has simultaneously implemented an
impracticable zero percent failure rate.
13 When ballots are submitted to USPS in large-volume
batches, if any one ballot in the batch cannot be verified against the Portal, all ballots in that
batch will be rejected. For example, if a state election official brings a batch of 10,000 ballots to
USPS and USPS is unable to match just one of those ballots against the Portal – because, for
example, someone has recently changed their name after marriage or they’ve moved – then
USPS would refuse to mail the remaining 9,999 ballots as well. As the whistleblower notes,
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Grudging Signup @grudgingsignup.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
they say it's about money so people don't mock them, but it's always about the control every crisis the world is facing is, when you get right down to it, one or more rich guys feeling insecure
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
It's like a parody, but it's deadly serious; the Commerce Department (which includes Census, NOAA, and others) has outright deleted "don't alter or suppress scientific findings for political reasons" from its scientific integrity rules. Seriously.
Protecting against "inappropriate influence" is no longer a "hallmark" of scientific integrity

The Commerce Department updated its policy for promoting a "culture of scientific integrity" in January 2025, days before Trump's second inauguration.

A new Trump administration order bans the Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis from using statistical “noise,” or data for fuzzing survey results, to protect people’s privacy in their statistics.

The 2025 version included bans on attempts to shape or interfere in data collection, statistical analysis and other scientific activities "against well-accepted scientific methods and theories or without scientific justification."

The department's policy, the 2025 version said, involves ensuring scientific findings at its agencies "are not suppressed, delayed, or altered for political purposes and are not subjected to inappropriate influence," as well as making sure there's "independent review of facilities, methodologies, and other scientific activities as appropriate to ensure scientific integrity."

That language is missing, however, in the Trump administration's revision of the policy, according to an NPR analysis of text posted on the Commerce Department's website.

And while the revision adopts a definition for "scientific integrity" that is similar to the previous version, it no longer says that "protection from inappropriate influence" is among the "hallmarks of scientific integrity."
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🌑 @fell.energy · 01/09/2026
i want games made by people who get to keep their jobs
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Whenever I see a poll like this I always like to remind people that approval for interracial marriage in the US did not cross the 50% mark until 1994, when I was already in my twenties.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
“If that counts as sexual assault then almost every woman has been sexually assaulted”. Yes. Bingo. Almost every woman HAS been sexually assaulted. Many of us have had it happen more than once. The problem isn’t the definition, it’s rape culture.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
It also can't be overlooked that these crooked freaks aren't using mass surveillance to stop mass shooters, terrorists, or traffickers but instead to stalk women.
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Ash Parrish, Kotaku's LeBron James @adashtra.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
At this point, it feels quaint to call out Keighley for trying to play both sides, calling attention to rising hardware prices and widespread layoffs while showing off games that are embracing a contributing factor to those issues. As long as the checks are good, and we know they are, it doesn’t seem like he cares that the events he hosts perpetuate genAI sanewashing.
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Rik Worth 👻 @rikworth.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I think what’s important to remember about Dolly Parton’s philanthropy in the world of the wealthy is that she was a poor woman who became rich through talent rather than a rich guy who was born rich and got richer through failing up.
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Micah @deadserious.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Let me recap: the MPD is 30 million over budget, helped Lang plan his riot, set up barricades for him, let him drive multiple vehicles into a crowded area, one of the cop had their foot run over, and now we can’t press charges because the cops are in on it in the first place.
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 24/08/2026
i do think a lot of mainstreamers have missed the ball on how musk has moved past "rich guy with funny opinions on race science" and into "literally just a nazi"
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
He has to step down.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 22/08/2026
It’s worse than this. Having been in the room with many of them (long ago, before I knew they were psychopaths), the tycoons who are left running the industry have an active contempt for ordinary people, including their own workers. They actively want to oppress, control and punish them.
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FKFTSH @fkftsh.myatproto.social · 22/08/2026
VANDALISM WORKS
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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 20/08/2026
See, this is why I think it's VITAL to differentiate the people making the games from the terrible corporate circumstances they're working under. The people actually doing the work are usually the coolest goddamn people you'll ever meet, fully in it for the love of the (video) game.
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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
He may well have 1000 Einsteins and Mozarts working in his warehouses right now, but they can't do anything with their abilities what with having to work 18 hours a day under constant threat of being fired for taking a piss
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Jeff Bezos on why he wants a trillion
humans in the solar svstem
"I would love to see a trillion humans living
in the solar system. If we had a trillion
humans, we would have at any given time
a 1,000 Mozarts and a 1,000 Einsteins'
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Just pay your taxes bra
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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I love how this contradicts with the argument for the deportations - that migrants were stealing jobs from everyone else. Now the claim is that the jobs were created by migrants just as they are now gone with them.
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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
NEW: Flock has said for years its cameras don’t identify or track people. We obtained the code for its police AI and rebuilt parts of it. The tool can find witnesses, surface associates, search people by race or physical description, and flag vehicles by how they move. W/ @dell.bsky.social
wired.com
Flock Has a Powerful New AI Tool for Police. We Got Its Code
Flock’s surveillance cameras have already sparked outrage. WIRED reconstructed its next-generation AI system, already in use by some police, to confirm it goes much further than tracking license plate...
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Hell Dunkin @halduncan.com · 16/08/2026
someone should do a poll of the AI CEOs now and ask them if they're more afraid of Roko's Basilisk or of the next Luigi Mangioni... just to plant the thought in their heads like
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