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Freckled Face Ninja

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I read. I occasionally write. I want your chocolate. Extremely tired

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The Film Stage @thefilmstage.com · 28/09/2026
#MistyGreen seems to only exist as a platform for Chris Rock’s most hateful impulses. Read @judysquirrels.bsky.social's #NYFF64 review:
thefilmstage.com
NYFF Review: Chris Rock’s Misty Green Hatefully and Lazily Chronicles a Downfall
Misty Green is a disaster on all fronts. It’s a film that seems to hate its characters, the audience, and Black cinema in general. It’s a Hollywood satire with no insight. It’s a character study with ...
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Kimberley Johnson @kimberleyjohnson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
But I need to smile more.
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"The cameras, made by Alabama-based City Detect, use artificial intelligence to analyze images captured by sanitation trucks and generate 'blight scores' for homes and buildings." www.expressnews.com/news/article...
expressnews.com
AI-powered garbage trucks have flagged 20,000 homes in one Texas city.
AI-powered garbage truck cameras have flagged about 20,000 Dallas homes for potential code violations.
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The Anikan Padme meme

We're using AI to document damages on people's homes

To then provide state funds for repairs, and not to fine and evict them, right?
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“Nearly 235,000 Virginians are being notified that their felony convictions should have never kept them from voting and they can now register in time for the 2026 general election, according to the Department of Elections (ELECT).”🚨
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"Bahamas accused "rogue" DEA agents of operating illegally on its soil and raised the issue with the Trump administration last week, the ​country's ambassador to the US told Reuters on Thursday."
reuters.com
'Rogue' US DEA agents are operating illegally on Bahamian soil, ambassador says
The Bahamas accused "rogue" DEA agents of operating illegally on its soil and raised the issue with the Trump administration last week, the ​country's ambassador to the US told Reuters on Thursday.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Dengue was the disease I feared the most when I traveled abroad and now it’s here. “Florida has reported 392 dengue cases among residents this year, according to the CDC, including both locally acquired infections and cases linked to travel…The outbreak has also caused at least one death.“
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Bruce Dorsey @profbrucedorsey.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Nothing epitomizes the new extremism in Germany more than efforts to erase the memory of its history. God forbid that one would “stumble” upon a memory of lives destroyed by Nazis. “Stand for the things you know are right It's the truth that the truth makes them so uptight” bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
German town bans stumbling stone memorials to Nazi victims
Germany's education minister has branded the ban on the small brass memorial plaques a "scandal".
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
*RFK Dammit
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"RKF took money earmarked to provide health care for Black infants and spent it on his personal security detail" is a ludicrous headline. Comic book villainy.
wsj.com
Exclusive | RFK Jr.’s Enhanced Security Was Funded With Money From Minority Health Office
The cost of the health secretary’s security grew from roughly $10 million in fiscal year 2025 to $17 million in fiscal year 2026.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 27/09/2026
Advocates say the delays mean people are left waiting in prisonlike detention facilities that are riddled with allegations about spoiled food, beatings and medical neglect. “People are left hungry,” said the wife of a detainee in Mississippi.
propublica.org
These Judges Take Months to Decide If Immigrants Have Been Unlawfully Detained
Judges in some parts of the country have taken months to adjudicate immigrants’ claims of unlawful imprisonment, our analysis of 70,000 habeas petition cases found. Some detainees are asking to be dep...
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
He told one Onision survivor he was sending her laptop containing evidence to the FBI, but it sat with his assistant instead. He told Dahvie Vanity survivors he could help them. He didn’t. Just a few months ago, the FBI closed its investigation into Vanity without any charges. 21 women came forward.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
In the 2020s, Chris Hansen reinvented himself as a YouTube star (and pro-ICE Fox News guest) who covered real cases of CSA against internet celebrities. But his involvement actually exploited survivors and dangled the false promise of accountability in front of them, only for Hansen to ghost them.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
PRIMETIME, which portrays Chris Hansen as a twisted egomaniac, is really good. It’s also the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Hansen, who has long turned child sexual abuse into a spectacle centering himself—at the expense of actual victims. spitfirenews.com/p/chris-hans...
spitfirenews.com
Chris Hansen was never the hero
On 'Primetime' and the real child abuse investigations that Hansen led astray.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 22/09/2026
NEW: OpenAI took 20 million ChatGPT responses and had one of its experts search for chunks of text—specifically chunks of 25 words in a row- that were identical between ChatGPT’s responses and a news article. They found more than 400,000 of these 25-word overlaps between ChatGPT and our articles.
motherjones.com
AI exec: We may have pulled off “the largest theft of labor in human history.”
Documents from our lawsuit reveal how tech leaders talk when they think no one is listening.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I’m going to interview an expert on my channel to get more answers for all of us. The comments have run the full gamut of possibilities on this issue.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
NO FLUID was found in Nolan Wells' lungs or airways, per the autopsy report by the Mississippi State Medical Examiner. How do you die by "accidental drowning" if there is no water in your lungs?
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This really sucks. It also means it's on the rest of us to get vaxxed to reduce frequency and severity of the disease this season—if you have insurance/easy access, consider doing it to help the pack stay healthy, esp elders and vulnerable people of any age
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is one of those stories that drives home just how horrifying the current administration and its immigration policies / enforcement tactics are. It’s heartbreaking and stomach turning.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Trump is raging at news orgs for refusing to cover his reception of Xi after he banned three from the White House. The real lesson here: When institutions join together to resist his abuses of power it actually works, sending him into a helpless fury. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2158...
newrepublic.com
Trump’s Angry Tirade Over Failing Press Ban Reveals His Achilles’ Heel
Trump is furious that news organizations are fighting back against his vile efforts to punish their colleagues—because collective resistance to his authoritarianism actually works.
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This facility is a nightmare
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"At least six babies in Pennsylvania have been born infected with measles, with two so sick they had to be admitted to intensive care. Congenital measles is a disease that’s rarely, if ever, seen in the U.S..." www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
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America had wiped out measles. Now babies are infected at birth.
Congenital measles has rarely been seen in the U.S. That’s changing as vaccination declines and more pregnant women become infected.
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WIRED @wired.com · 26/09/2026
No IVF. No surrogacy. No polygenic tests. Emma Waters is leading a national fight against fertility tech—with her hot husband’s permission, of course.
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She’s 28, Loves God and Her Family, and Might Be the Reason You Can’t Have Kids
No IVF. No surrogacy. No polygenic tests. Emma Waters is leading a national fight against fertility tech—with her hot husband’s permission, of course.
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Six years later, DoorDash has agreed to pay $131.5 million to settle New York City's investigation into wage theft and late payment of more than 260,000 delivery workers.
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The same year Kara was driving for DoorDash, earning $6.50 an hour after gas, the company generated $2.9 billion in revenue and $1.4 billion in gross profit.
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
After five months delivering for DoorDash, Kara received an automated email telling her she had been deactivated for being late too many times. She begged them not to take away her only income. The response came back: "You have reached an email that is not in use."
Book page describing DoorDash deactivating Kara after five months for "extreme lateness" and her desperate reply asking them not to take away her only income.Book page showing Kara's plea to DoorDash, followed by the automated response: "You have reached an email that is not in use."
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This story brought me back to Kara, one of the mothers in my book, There Is No Place for Us. She was homeless with her four kids while driving for DoorDash. They had to pee in bottles so bathroom stops wouldn't make her late. After gas, she earned $6.50 an hour—75 cents less than the minimum wage.
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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Elon Musk O @elonmusk
Given that Twitter serves as the de facto public town square, failing to adhere to free speech principles fundamentally undermines democracy.
What should be done?
Elon Musk @elonmusk
Free speech is essential to a functioning democracy.
Do you believe Twitter rigorously adheres to this principle?
4:51 AM • Mar 27, 2022
Read the full conversation on Twitter
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.
Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The visions that SV techbros have for is honestly so dark, so bleak, so isolated and isolating; one where any and all community and connection is pushed aside in this perverse forceful push to transcend our bodies, born of their terror of disability and death. These people decide our futures, my god
itself. Our physical bodies would be discarded, and in their place would rise robotic übermenschen. Our minds, so tragically prone to decline as we age, would be transferred to flawless, immortal code. Machines were about to mature “from the simple devices they still are, to entities as complex as ourselves, to something transcending everything we know, in whom we can take pride when they refer to themselves as our descendants,” Moravec wrote.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Raw milk strikes again. Thirteen people across nine states have become sick with E. coli after consuming Sierra Nevada Graziers’ product, with 8 of them having been hospitalized.
abcnews.com
E. coli outbreak linked to raw milk cheese brand: CDC, FDA
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are investigating a multistate outbreak of E. coli infections.
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The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · 26/09/2026
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Quebec premier warns of U.S. attempts to sow division ahead of election
Document from U.S. think tank detailed a plan to support Quebec independence, including by helping the sovereigntist PQ party to power
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V Pace @vpace.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The profession most likely to domestically abuse has been given tools to make that even easier. Good job everyone.
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dzaiuo-vrdeui.eurosky.social @dzaiuo-vrdeui.eurosky.social · 26/09/2026
Please help🙏🥹 @theano66.bsky.social @phanpy-nuva.bsky.social @erismirror.dyke.city @reflectiverambling.bsky.social @freckledfaceninja.bsky.social @woulddo.bsky.social @conkerjahk.bsky.social @hostileballad.bsky.social @bangintocake.bsky.social @thejackoning.bsky.social @strangelibrary.com
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 25/09/2026
“I am not advocating anything here" says Cybertruck owner, before making a sales pitch for the Cybertruck's ability to get you home safely if you fall asleep behind the wheel www.torquenews.com/11826/tesla-...
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A Tesla Cybertruck Owner Says He Fell Asleep While Driving His Truck On The Highway – He Adds, “After 18 Hours Of Flight, I Was Struggling To Stay Awake, But FSD Made Sure I Woke Up Immediately”
A Cybertruck owner says FSD saved his life after he fell asleep on the highway. He explains that he had to drive home after an 18-hour flight, and the truck not only drove itself but also woke him wit...
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 25/09/2026
of course, some of the Cybertruck owners out there are only achieving at a typical Tesla owner level www.wftv.com/news/local/l...
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Leesburg man arrested for DUI after claiming Tesla Cybertruck was driving itself
Police arrested a man for DUI who claimed he wasn't drive because his Tesla Cybertruck can drive itself.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 25/09/2026
to follow up on the other recent example, the Go Fund Me by the Mr Olympia judge who backed over his kid but only said he was "hit by a moving vehicle" is now over its $50k goal thanks to a "heartbreaking" social media post people.com/mr-olympia-j...
people.com
Mr. Olympia Judge Pays Heartbreaking Tribute to Son, 6, Who Died After He Accidentally Backed Cybertruck into Him
Mr. Olympia judge, Terrick El Guindy, paid tribute to his 6-year-old son Preston in a heartbreaking Instagram post, days after he died in a Cybertruck accident at their California home. Terrick had re...
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 25/09/2026
so cool how "cybertruck owner commits horrific crime" is just part of our cultural landscape now www.syracuse.com/crime/2026/0...
syracuse.com
Upstate NY driver killed pedestrian, then tried to hide Cybertruck in woods
The man was sentenced to prison on Wednesday. The crash took place in 2025.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Wild stuff. Sheri Mecklenberg, career prosecutor accused of misconduct in Broadview 6 case, resigns from DOJ. The NYT obtained her scathing resignation letter, in which she says the U.S. attorney directed her to bring felony charges over her objection. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
nytimes.com
Read the document (Gift Article)
Sheri H. Mecklenburg resignation letter
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Greg Jarrell @gregjarrell.com · 23/09/2026
This week my city council voted to expand an urban highway, further destroying historically Black neighborhoods in the process. Their justifications relied on intentionally misremembering the brutality of urban renewal and urban highway projects.
gregjarrell.beehiiv.com
Forgetting and Mis-remembering
Charlotte is determined to repeat the bad old days
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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
theguardian.com
Trump administration guts data collection on US education as math and reading scores plummet
National Center for Education Statistics, which collects critical data to guide policy on learning, was decimated after Doge canceled crucial contracts
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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
You don’t gut the country's capacity to measure what's happening in its schools because you care about improving them. Guardian article below.
graph of number of employees at NCES
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Health officials say that a possible measles exposure was reported in the NICU at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia last week. www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/m...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/09/2026
what are the odds that this will have a special course on race science?
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 24/09/2026
It was!
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w.m.d. du bois @sjroadw.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
my ex went to simon’s rock, and yeah he said it could be kinda wild but also it was an actual accredited school run by people who cared deeply about actual education including the humanities
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 23/09/2026
i went to Simon's Rock (an early college) which at least wasn't run by massively rich creeps, and they had plenty problems with drugs/alcohol/bad behavior....this will be so much worse
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 23/09/2026
Yes, the Andreessen Horowitz-backed big tech boarding school that takes students as young as 16 is, in fact, advertising Tyler Cowen - he of the "if you wish to see a virgin on-screen, this is one of your better chances" creep article - as faculty.
tyler cowen being really creepy about AI virgins@eriktorenberg
Erik Torenberg
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Thrilled to announce our latest incubation: Horowitz Andreessen Academy.

Horowitz Andreessen Academy will be a two-year residential program in San Francisco for 16 to 22 year olds.

My biggest regret from my college experience is how divorced it was from the real world (both practically but also intellectually)

HAA is the opposite. Students will learn from real-world practitioners and intellectuals; including founders (Sam Altman, Brian Armstrong, Jensen Huang), investors (Elad Gil, Daniel Gross), and professors (Agnes Callard, Tyler Cowen), among hundreds of others. The Academy is the educational experience I wish I had.

In 1984, the educational psychologist Benjamin Bloom published a paper about how the average student who received one-on-one tutoring focused on mastery techniques performed better than 98% of the control group. For generations, this was viewed as unrealistic to implement even if it produced the best outcomes.

At the Academy, we will be able to locate any tutor on any topic that a student desires.

Take an aspiring filmmaker or producer. The standard path offers them film theory courses, peer workshops, and the occasional visiting filmmaker; everything past that takes meticulous networking and luck. The very entrepreneurial type will find ways to invite prominent speakers to speak and meticulous networking to reach the right people. At the Academy, they will learn the business from the people who run it and their next creative project will have notes from award-winning filmmakers.

Take a young founder. Yes, there is endless content online; you can watch a video on any skill. But content is not coaching. The Academy will provide dedicated, experienced coaches and mentors who know your company and psychology. Students can workshop issues with prominent leaders in technology who host sessions on campus. Every generation of entrepreneurs has had mentors in their corner. Ours will too.

Take …
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 23/09/2026
Let's recall that apparently Sam Altman was in a Discord with a 13 year old in 2020 bsky.app/profile/fain...
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