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Frederick Lane

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Father (now Grand-). Husband. Author. Runner. Fulbright Specialist in Law and Computer Technology. Hard-core liberal. Red Sox. Current book project: "The Cybertraps of Choice: Privacy and Pregnancy in a Post-Roe World." On @thedailyshow.com once (8/16).

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Annie Waldman @anniewaldman.bsky.social · 7h
NEW: As Trump’s White House and influencers keep touting the unproven benefits of raw milk, hundreds across the country are falling ill from outbreaks. Some people get severe indigestion. And some nearly die. Here's the story of one toddler who drank it. 🧵👇 www.propublica.org/article/cali...
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A Girl Nearly Died After Drinking Raw Milk. The State Did Little to Punish the Unlicensed Farmer Who Sold It.
California is teeming with black-market dairies, propped up by consumer demand fueled by misinformation. With evidence against one raw goat milk farm, regulators could have sought punitive action. But...
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HuffPost @huffpost.com · 8h
“If you see each other in public, you can say hi, but you can never say where you know each other from,” our group leader told us on day one.
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I Was Part Of A Secret Society Of Jane Does On My College Campus. I’m Infuriated By How Little Has Changed.
“If you see each other in public, you can say hi, but you can never say where you know each other from,” our group leader told us on day one.
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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 15h
No bear has ever doxxed a rape victim
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 16h
Time for this classic again.
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 14h
One of the things to come from GamerGate was the gamification of torturing real, live women...hounding them out of their homes, making them look over their shoulders for years. It was treated as a joke, nbd, the work of a few bad apples--as all terrorism against women is--& that failure leads here.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 17h
So-called AI detection tools might be an even bigger scurge than AI. I was talking today with a student (a senior), who shared that they now have to spend time "dumbing down" their papers--shortening sentences, removing advanced vocab and punctuation--because otherwise they get flagged as "AI."
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 29/09/2026
The senator who mistook the Atlanta Hawks for the Iowa Hawkeyes and tried to accuse Jack Smith of perjury? He could be the most dangerous man in the US Senate. What to know about Eric Schmitt:
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Is this the most dangerous man in the US Senate?
Sen. Eric Schmitt of Missouri is pushing a tribalistic ideology suggesting only descendants of white Christian pioneers are true Americans.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The main reason you haven’t heard about campus sexual violence in a few years is because Trump and SCOTUS have made it much, much harder for survivors to come forward. You might vaguely remember that Title IX was a big battleground in his first term. And that we lost.
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House Democrats @housedemocrats.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Donald Trump is the most corrupt president in our history. When Democrats get the gavels, we will investigate him and his family and get justice for the American people.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 29/09/2026
The Talmud teaches that anyone who sustains one soul, has sustained an entire world. For generations, Jewish New Yorkers have sustained our city. Today, we are launching the first-ever municipal Strategy to Combat Antisemitism.
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
29 September 1913 | A Pole, Władysław Szumilas, was born in Krakow. A handball, table tennis & football player of Wisła Kraków. He was arrested for participation in resistance. In #Auschwitz from 14 January 1942 No. 25538 He perished in the camp on 18 June 1942.
Vintage black and white photo of a soccer player in a dark jersey and shorts, kneeling on grass with a soccer ball in front.
Two soccer players in action during a match, one wearing a white shirt and the other in a dark shirt with a star emblem, competing for the ball on a grassy field.
A mugshot registration photograph from Auschwitz. A man with a shaved head wearing a striped uniform photographed in three positions (profile and front with bare head and a photo with a slightly turned head with a hat on). The prisoner number is visible on a marking board on the left.
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Joe Dunman @joedunman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Judges Warn That AI-Generated Lawslop Is Getting So Bad It’s Threatening Courts' Ability to Function
A panel of three Florida state district court judges blasted a family attorney for using AI to generate "frivolous, scattershot arguments."
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Rep. Mike Levin @levin.house.gov · 28/09/2026
Just in case it wasn’t clear, when they say the U.S. Government’s paying for this, that’s YOUR taxpayer dollars they’re using. I’ll say this as many times as I need to: it is ILLEGAL to use American taxpayer dollars from the government to pay for candidates’ or parties’ political ads.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There’s something to be said for how most of the political spectrum can unite around hounding some lesbians over niche drama in their spaces but huge segments of society are silent about pervasive campus rape impacting a huge population of primarily youngwomen
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 28/09/2026
Last month, we refurbished 10 tennis courts in Crotona Park — the only public tennis courts in the Bronx with lights for night play. We stopped by recently to see how things were going. Thank you to NYJTL, USTA and Yonex for helping us deliver high-quality public spaces that New Yorkers deserve.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
People Magazine is out in front of most big media on this awful story: people.com/cornell-stud...
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Cornell Student Alleges Frat Members Gang-Raped Her, Only 2 Were Expelled While Others Had to Write Essays: Lawsuit
The alleged rapes occurred in October 2024.
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Kimberley Johnson @kimberleyjohnson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Getting flu and COVID shots now because science.
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Dr Hell-Mart @hockeyeeyore.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It would be kind of funny if OpenAI agents hacked the Justice Department and released the Epstein Files.
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Mad_as_hell (Maddie) @maddie-says.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Billionaires and corporations spend millions for influence, access, and aligned policies. When they put serious money into elections, voters have every right to follow the money, examine the relationships, and ask who benefits from the policies that follow. #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 26/09/2026
👏 "‘Let’s tell the truth’: Smithsonian head given standing ovation as he hits back at Trump attacks. Outgoing secretary Lonnie Bunch rejects claims the institution is unpatriotic, telling audience ‘You cannot understand all without illuminating the dark corners’" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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‘Let’s tell the truth’: Smithsonian head given standing ovation as he hits back at Trump attacks
Outgoing secretary Lonnie Bunch rejects claims the institution is unpatriotic, telling audience ‘You cannot understand all without illuminating the dark corners’
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Axios @axios.com · 25/09/2026
Bill Gates says he can see a future where AI wipes out humanity, warning the technology is powerful enough to cause a billion deaths.
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Bill Gates warns AI is powerful enough to cause "a billion deaths"
"There's never been a weapon as powerful."
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Norm Ornstein @normornstein.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
There is no low too low for this partisan, lawless Supreme Court majority. Using the underhanded emergency docket to give Trump a power the Constitution does not allow, a fat thumb on the scale of elections. Disgraceful, six people who would be better on the Russian Supreme Court than in a democracy
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026
over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
POPE LEO: “If we are to avoid losing our humanity amid a ‘paradise of machines’ invading and conditioning our daily lives, there is an urgent need for education in ethical discernment and the capacity to acknowledge the moral good…” (www.vatican.va/content/leo-...)
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If we are to avoid losing our humanity amid a "paradise of machines" invading and conditioning our daily lives, there is an urgent need for education in ethical discernment and the capacity to acknowledge the moral good. This is indispensable if we are to recognize the genuine good that enables human beings to flourish in accordance with their primordial vocation, with unconditional respect for their interior freedom and their sacred dignity.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 25/09/2026
Age verification is an egregious privacy violation, an inexcusable form of surveillance, and… it’s also voodoo bullshit that doesn’t work. It’s one of the reasons I’m proudest to support @eff.org, who have been leading the fight against the horrible practice for years: www.eff.org/issues/age-v...
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Age Verification and Age Gating: Resource Hub
Age verification (or age-gating) laws generally require online services to check, estimate, or verify all users’ ages—often through invasive tools like ID checks, biometric scans, or other dubious “ag...
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WatchYourRepsTN&SC @watchyourrepssc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
We just might pull this off michaelafortennessee.substack.com/p/we-just-mi... #BlueWaveIn40Days @michaelafortn.bsky.social
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We just might pull this off
The moment we knew we could really win this
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 24/09/2026
Just when I think I can’t hate OpenAI and Sam Altman any more, new details come out about how ChatGPT helped a shooter plan one of the worst mass shootings in Canadian history in Tumbler Ridge, BC. OpenAI made an explicit decision not to report the user to authorities.
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ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals
OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.
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Mark Follman @markfollman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
NEWS: My new investigation uncovers the horrific ChatGPT history of the Tumbler Ridge school shooter. OpenAI’s chatbot fueled the shooter's violent fantasies and plans up to the day of the massacre. Chats about guns, timing of attacks, becoming infamous, and more. www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...
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ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals
OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
BREAKING: POLITICO has now been granted White House access.
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POLITICO granted White House access after being denied earlier Thursday
The move comes after the Secret Service confiscated another POLITICO reporter’s White House pass Thursday morning, despite a judge ordering the Trump administration to restore access.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026
Last night I planted an olive tree at Gracie Mansion with Palestinian families from Gaza.  May peace be our future.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026
Never been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house.
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Alan Jagolinzer @jagolinzer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
What is the use case for this thing that looks like it’s marketed for kids and is reportedly an experimental product launch for Meta?
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Isle of Wight @isleofwightuk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Cowes man jailed for failing to provide police with the pin for his mobile phone #IsleOfWight
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Cowes man jailed for failing to provide police with the pin for his mobile phone
The 28-year-old appeared before a judge at the Isle of Wight Crown Court.
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NPR @npr.org · 24/09/2026
Education staff are being scattered across several other federal agencies. Despite the Trump administration's claims, employees say it's adding bureaucracy and making it harder to serve students. n.pr/3TS9SAR
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The Education Dept. hasn't been dismantled. It's become more inefficient, staff say
Education staff are being scattered across several other federal agencies. Despite the Trump administration's claims, employees say it's adding bureaucracy and making it harder to serve students.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
20+ PEOPLE HAVE BEEN ARRESTED BLOCKING THE ROAD TO THE AI HEALTH SUMMIT, where healthcare CEOs and tech billionaires are rolling out the red carpet for Palantir-backed healthcare. 72 floors above them, healthcare executives are gathering to talk about Al, hospital profits, and the future of our care
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HuffPost @huffpost.com · 24/09/2026
The bizarre government-sponsored ad was spotted on Fox News.
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'Fascist Propaganda, Period': Critics Trash Trump's New Taxpayer-Funded 'Love Me' Ad
The bizarre government-sponsored ad was spotted on Fox News.
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Reproaction @reproaction.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
🚨Trump has nominated another anti-abortion operative to lead a federal agency. Heidi Overton publicly celebrated the overturning of Roe and has since called for restrictions on abortions pills. Tell the FDA and White House to keep their hands OFF abortion pills now: reproaction.org/action/trump....
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
October 2016: WaPo publishes piece expressing amazement that someone at a Trump rally shouted out the Nazi term “Lügenpresse.” September 2026: Trump’s decision to ban the “fake news” from the White House is defended by a DOJ lawyer who once said Mein Kampf was his favorite book.
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A German crowd gives the Nazi salute to the U.S. Olympic contingent as it marches past the reviewing stand of Olympics host Adolf Hitler, pictured in semi-silhouette on the right. (International News Photos)
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
lol my flight got diverted because of a medical emergency and they landed us in reykjavik in the middle of the night and deplaned us and sent us through passport control and then the crew vanished and then british airways sent us links to book an overnight hotel room but for a hotel at heathrow
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Guy Gavriel Kay @guygavrielkay.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Someone noted that misogyny is probably the best predictor of any male violence, and that seems so obviously a truth.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Just the most boring bores who ever bored.
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I don’t even know what to say anymore jessica.substack.com/p/her-baby-h...
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I really fucking hate gourd season. Not as much as I hate SCOTUS season. But they’re the same season is the thing that really makes it a perfect storm
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Making of Uzbek Tandoor Bread
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
At the UN General Assembly the orange felon said “America is in a golden age.” Yea, for you and the ultra wealthy you disgusting thieving criminal tyrant fuckwad, for everyone else it’s a shitty age where people can’t even afford groceries. I really hate him.
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Louise @bombaycrone.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Wake up people!
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Reyhan Harmanci @harmancipants.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NEW COVER(S)!!!! For our first WIRED Woman issue, we did no fewer than four covers, starring the iconic Patti Harrison as our favorite tech leaders, in our favorite moments for them
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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Why the CDC is excluding measles deaths in Pennsylvania even as outbreak appears to be ‘accelerating’ #TheGuardian
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Why the CDC is excluding measles deaths in Pennsylvania even as outbreak appears to be ‘accelerating’
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