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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 41m
“For months, Anthropic has been hosting private meetings like this one, shuttling in dozens of religious scholars from across the world, papering them with nondisclosure agreements and demanding that key aspects of many conversations remain confidential.“ www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u...
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Is Claude Conscious? Inside Anthropic’s Quest to Instill Morality Into Its A.I. Models (Gift Article)
In a series of private meetings, the company consulted religious scholars to help instill morality into its A.I. models — and make the case that Claude could be conscious.
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 1h
A new awesome use case for AI
ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt announced that from now on every complaint of antisemitism online submitted to the ADL is instantly scanned by AI for a potential lawsuit, then fed to a network of 50,000 lawyers.
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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1h
No white people demanding the fact of welfare be depicted as a Black woman is not a “teachable moment” please.
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WIRED @wired.com · 1h
Lost time. Lost jobs. Lost friends. Lost family. Lost lives. Our joint investigation reveals the system that has divided the West Bank and measures what it cost people to move through it. www.wired.com/story/how-is...
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How Israeli Checkpoints Choke Palestinian Life in the Occupied West Bank
Lost time. Lost jobs. Lost friends. Lost family. Lost lives. Our joint investigation reveals the system that has divided the West Bank and measures what it cost people to move through it.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 9h
This is a reminder that the fraternity system was created to oppose race and gender integration on college campuses. White men who wanted to keep their schools—and all the power that comes with college education—to themselves. It is not a coincidence that they are hotbeds of violence.
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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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crying in seafood city @turnpikeghosts.bsky.social · 9h
man. really something to just see it written out so plainly like this.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 9h
Any institution that still hazes people can fuck off forever.
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 9h
So this is just Grok with less answers? I guess I didn't realize I'm supposed to ask it about official government services, as I rarely in my life ask anyone about official government services.
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Marc Alessi @marc-alessi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
New Commentary out in Nature Climate Action: we now live in a fundamentally different climate system due to the burning of fossil fuels. Because of this, any extreme weather event now occurs in a changed climate and is influenced by fossil fuel-driven climate change to some degree.
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The next phase of climate attribution - npj Climate Action
Attribution science has transformed our understanding of how anthropogenic emissions shape extreme weather events, yet the field remains constrained by repeatedly demonstrating anthropogenic influence...
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Katy Shields @katyrshields.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A wee recap of Season one of Invisible Handcuffs, before Season 2 launches on Thursday, 1 October! Check out the all seven episodes of Season 1 here: www.invisiblehandcuffs.com
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 29/09/2026
Mahmoud Khalil could've been any of us.
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DivestSPD @divestspd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
SPD stopped naming cops who shoot people when the consent decree ended, so we do that now. The cop who shot the woman in Beacon Hill is Jose Jimenez, and we did a deep dive on him. Read all about him:
divestspd.com
Cop who shot Beacon Hill woman identified
Officer Jose Jimenez, 34, had only been assigned to the SWAT team for less than a year. He was previously a member of the Community Response Group, SPD’s “problem-oriented policing” unit.
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ZHUGE LIANG 臥龍 / 伏龍 🌈 @shuchancellor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
rapists aren't scared enough
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 29/09/2026
Either this is true, in which case *what are we doing here*? Shut it down. Or it's bullshit, in which case these are truly silly people unworthy of our money
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
fucking really
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Education Department formally rescinds Title IX protections for LGBTQ students
The Education Department announced Monday it has formally rescinded the Biden-era Title IX interpretation that gave sex-based discrimination protections to students on the basis of sexual orientati…
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Katelyn Oldham *Abolish ICE. Defund DHS.* @katelynstarrpdx.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
College athletes need unions to prevent this kind of horrendous abuse. This solidarity and push to remove this dangerous man from coaching them is very brave.
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LunchCounterPunch @theultrasecret.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We rely on the compassion and conviction of the young to expose the cravenness of their adult guides time and time again. May they be as unrelenting as the situation is unacceptable.
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St. Catharines Standard @stcatstandard.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Bangkok floodwaters begin to ease after torrential rains affect 700,000 people
BANGKOK (AP) — Floodwaters in Thailand ’s capital were slowly receding on Monday after nearly continuous rainfall over the weekend, although some neighborhoods and major roads remained inundated.
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Kate Ross @kateross.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
PROTECT YOUR DATA Gouged: why Americans are being ripped off – and what to do about it
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Gouged: why Americans are being ripped off – and what to do about it
How can we fix our pricing crisis? Economic sociologist Lindsay Owens urges tough new rules – and a consumer uprising
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Harlow Lombard @harlowlombard.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
More two-faced talk from Dem “progressives” who consistently engage in regressive policy that hurts the working class. They post shit like this, but sign official statements like 👇, which only serves to back AI billionaires in the U.S. (1/2) #warren #coons #reed #shaheen #warner #china #AI #Iran
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Shaheen, Coons, Reed, Warner, Warren, Kim Statement Ahead of President Xi Jinping’s State Visit | United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Chris Coons (D-DE), Ranking Member...
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Current Affairs @currentaffairs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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The Lever @levernews.com · 28/09/2026
“The apocalyptic threat we now face is as much the prospect of out-of-control AI agents as it is the already out-of-control humans who created them.” David Sirota on the unsettling question at the heart of the AI panic: What if the machines aren’t malfunctioning at all?
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Campus rape is really widespread; statistics suggest a significant percent of women who go to college will be raped there; feminism opened up a good conversation about it around 2012-13; it's weird when people treated Cornell like an isolated rather than dramatic example of a pervasive problem.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The rise of 287(g) programs has meant that ICE is increasingly using local police as a very significant force multiplier, with up to 1 in 8 arrests of noncitizens in the interior now being carried out by state and local police. This is going to have profound impacts on community relations.
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Kylie Cheung @kylietcheung.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I think its important to understand the campus sexual assault crisis is way worse than you think. universities suspend just 1/12,400 students each year for sexual misconduct & expel 1/22,900. once you read title ix administrators in their own words, you get a sense why that is:
jezebel.com
Not Only Do Campus Sexual Assailants Go Unpunished, They Often Get Special Treatment
Since 2007, Jezebel has been the Internet's most treasured source for everything celebrities, sex, and politics...with teeth.
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The Marshall Project @themarshallproject.org · 28/09/2026
Thousands of people die in U.S. prisons and jails each year. The surviving families are often left asking basic questions: What happened, and could the death have been prevented? Too often, families never receive the answers they seek. www.themarshallproject.org/2025/08/06/d...
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After a Death Behind Bars, Families Struggle for Answers. This Guide Can Help.
Learn what questions to ask prison or jail officials, how to request key records and what to consider if you’re thinking about legal action.
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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
imagine calling a member of the house of lords a commie. our entire political class is made up of children.
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Ben Dowsett @bendowsett.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Right down to the billionaires who are funding this death spiral, very intentionally, so they and their friends can do whatever they want without being held accountable at all
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026
Eliezer Yudkowsky, rationalist leader and AI advisor to Bernie Sanders (whose partner, Gretta Duleba, is mentioned as an instructor on the Slutcon 2026 program), wrote a rather notorious scifi story with some curious ideas about rape back in 2009: www.polemics.md/that-time-el...
In a conversation with the ship's leader Akon, the Confessor dispenses wisdom he's gained from witnessing the transformation of humanity into a space-faring race. During this conversation, he reveals that the act of rape is completely legal during Akon's time and had been legalized by humanity during a turbulent period in its past. Akon responds with shock, calling the ancient human civilization "prudish":
The Confessor held up a hand. "I mean it, my lord Akon. It is not polite idealism. We ancients can't steer. We remember too much disaster. We're too cautious to dare the bold path forward. Do you know there was a time when nonconsensual sex was illegal?" Akon wasn't sure whether to smile or grimace. "The Prohibition, right? During the first century pre-Net? I expect everyone was glad to have that law taken off the books. I can't imagine how boring your sex lives must have been up until then - flirting with a woman, teasing her, leading her on, knowing the whole time that you were perfectly safe because she couldn't take matters into her own hands if you went a little too far"You need a history refresher, my Lord Administrator. At some suitably abstract level. What I'm trying to tell you - and this is not public knowledge - is that we nearly tried to overthrow your government."
"What?" said Akon. "The Confessors! '
"No, us. The ones who remembered the ancient world. Back then we still had our hands on a large share of the capital and tremendous influence in the grant committees.
When our children legalized rape, we thought that the Future had gone wrong."
Akon's mouth hung open. "You were that prude?"
I don't believe in condemning people solely off fiction, but this is the type of thing that one might find on the fanfiction website Archive of Our Own behind many tags and warnings.Three Worlds Collide, however, isn't hosted on Archive of Our Own. It's hosted on Overcoming Bias, blog of George Mason University economist 1l Robin Hanson and the original home of LessWrong before it moved to its own website. Hanson is an economist at the notoriously libertarian George Mason university who has been repeatedly criticized for his views on women - one notorious blog post of his compared cuckoldry to "silent gentle rape" and he was dubbed
"America's creepiest economist" in a piece about his incel-adjacent takes.
Three Worlds Collide is over 15 years old, but it is relevant to current event. The Rationality community that developed around Eliezer Yudkowsky and LessWrong has been marred with multiple allegations of abuse and sexual misconduct. These allegations were also the basis for a protest against a Rationalist organization by Ziz, the leader of the so-called
"death cult" that formed in the community and is currently suspected to be involved in several murders, including the recent killing of a Border Patrol officer in Vermont. I
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026
I regret to inform you all that Bernie Sanders is in fact taking meetings with noted rationalist wacko Eliezer Yudkowsky over what AI regulations should look like. x.com/SenSanders/s...
Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders
Will Al become smarter than humans?
If so, is humanity in danger?
I went to Silicon Valley to ask some of the leading Al experts that question.
Here's what they had to say:
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The Als are much, much, much more powerful.
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My thanks to Senator Sanders; as to other legislators on all sides of any political aisle, and to any human being on Earth who now stands
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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 27/09/2026
Gavin Newsom also just signed another Israel-sponsored bill into law declaring that being Jewish is now an ethnicity along with other vague anti-“hate speech” bits as well.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Google maps has finally updated its Satellite photos of Gaza and it shows the most complete destruction of a city ever. A Genocide.
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The Needling @theneedling.com · 25/09/2026
Car-Free Pike Place Market Pilot Deemed Too Successful to Continue: tinyurl.com/uund6kej
People and flowers take up space on street of Pike Place in front of the Public Market Center sign
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Margaret G @mls0308.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#Cornell7 #RapeCulture #Pinks
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Arianeh Sajadi, Esq. @arianehsajadi.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
When the punishment for gang rape is writing a college essay — at the same time as the gross lack of accountability for the global enterprise of criminals in the Epstein files, including the tyrant in the WH — the current patriarchal system has loudly proven its own inherent failure. Enough. 🛑
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I do love that there are these warring factions at DHS that absolutely hate each other.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 26/09/2026
These 7 men at Cornell drugged & raped a woman for hours, then called their friends to come rape her. 2 men got expelled. 5 had to write letter of apology. 0 faced any consequences. Men throughout the societal ladder are complicit. Women are not safe around men.
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026
Predictably and nominatively, she got no respect at all
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annabellelecter.bsky.social @annabellelecter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The NCAA is a criminal enterprise.
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Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
the funny thing is even if you decide to be generous and give obama's position here credence, the core problem remains that a ton of the most visible democrats - himself included! - will not take actually strong moral stances, even/especially against deeply unpopular policies, people, corps, etc
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵
Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Yikes, Tim Tebow — the latest Pablo Torre/Mother Jones investigation has questions about “Life Surge”, a company Tebow is a face of that’s taking Christians deep into debt with real estate investment classes that cost as much as $40,000🤔 (victims: “a scam”) More: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Ⓐnarchohoodism 🐈‍⬛ 🏴 @161bklyn.myatproto.social · 26/09/2026
Premeditated robbery, and murder. Kidnapping and false imprisonment if Trump was a regular person. He was gonna go at Iran back in 1987, according to this. The only reason he made a deal to get Venezuelan oil is that he had to make it look as tho he was freeing ppl, and not stealing.
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The truth behind Donald Trump’s ‘biggest oil deal in world history’
The US’s oil deal with Venezuela faces multiple legal and logistical problems, including questions about whether it can be implemented
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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 26/09/2026
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Naomi Klein: The super rich need to be abolished and ‘prescribed a middle-class life’
End Times Fascism by noted author and her collaborator Astra Taylor contains a hopeful prescription for neighbourly resistance
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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Cops put this woman in solitary for three days on the strength of Flock "evidence" that she had killed people in a hit and run. Her car, meanwhile, had zero visible damage. But cops told her the "damage" was consistent with the accident. They believed Flock over their own eyes.
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dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
in 2017, a trans reporter was fired at @marketplace.org for writing a blog post abt the need for journalists to resist rising fascism, racism and transphobia. @kairyssdal.bsky.social, the host of the show, said nothing & let his colleague's career be murdered. judge his hr tips accordingingly.
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shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 25/09/2026
By the way, mamdani's nypd is not only escorting the genocidal maniac, netanyahu, and providing him with security, they're also arresting the people protesting his presence at the UNGA. The blue maga genocidal democrats and liberals are out there making up excuses for this. What a fucking life!
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shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 25/09/2026
I once told an African American in the US that obama bombed Black folks in Africa, and they said they didn't give a shit, and they ONLY care that obama was the "first Black president." Listen, if you ain't a class conscious Black person like these folks here, I DO NOT STAND IN SOLIDARITY WITH YOU.
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