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Roland Hatzenpichler @environmicrobio.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The new NSF letter is catastrophic. It shifts NSF towards applied research (which is NOT NSF’s mandate), will funnel money to business and away from universities, promises to push even more money to AI, and policital appointments can overrule entire panels. Also, golden tickets overruling everything

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Arizona Right Watch @azrww.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

As we approach the 25th anniversary of 9/11, I want to highlight a memorial not far from my home. 4 days after 9/11, a racist shot and killed Balbir Singh Sodhi, a husband, father of five, and beloved member of his local Sikh community. His murder was the first hate crime in response to the attacks.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 27/08/2026

In case you wanted about 3,700 words on the problems with today's "settlement" that gives Meta way more power over how the internet works than it should have.

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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 05/07/2026

we inadvertently timed the fireworks going off on the street directly below our hotel window with us putting on this great bit youtu.be/Dn-gWhz-UFY?...

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Teacher's Lounge - Bill sings the Star-Spangled Banner (s09e40)

YouTube video by Swine High

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Commander Sterling @commandersterling.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

No matter what you try and teach a Hollywood executive, it will always come away with the most facile and least useful interpretation mortally possible. It’s embarrassing. There are literal children who could have a more nuanced take than “film give money when Internet give spooky.”

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 17/06/2026

“Trump spent 112 billion to close Hormuz and 300 billion to reopen it”

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

THREAD. The San Francisco DA gave an "exclusive" interview to the New York Post yesterday that is full of egregious misinformation. But something deeper is going on that should worry everyone who cares about the possibility of a democratic society.

Headline about DA Brooke Jenkins warning CA supreme court decision unleashing crime wave

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ceej @ceej.online · 28/04/2025

the new pope must announce SuperHell

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mahsa alimardani @mahsaalimardani.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

We didn't deserve this day.

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Sam Plattner @frekulex.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Democrats use consultants like many people use LLMs and suffer many of the same consequences. A life spent having the room read for you (badly) has left them fundamentally incapable of doing it themselves.

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 07/04/2026

President threatens the eradication of 90 million people, and America's opposition party is just not getting it. Complete loss of words for the way our elected officials on both sides of the aisle are approaching These Times.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Red States: We are canceling all programs that don't support our theology. Blue States: We're canceling all the same programs, but because they don't support our business school.

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wint @dril.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

thanks to AI our slow and humiliating national suicide will be punctuated by visual media that is so good even a dog could jack off to it

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Andrew Wallis OBE @andrewwallis.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

The UK has 130,000 #modernslavery victims and a £60bn annual cost. From April, the government is closing the national unit that coordinates police investigations into it. The reason, per insiders: immigration wins more votes. That is a policy decision with a body count observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

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Outcry as modern slavery unit is closed | The Observer

Funding is being cut from the task force, despite an ongoing investigation into a trafficking ring allegedly run by the late Harrod’s owner Al Fayed

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doom boy @doomboy.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

love how we killed the old, frail anti-nuke ayatollah just to have him replaced with his young, healthy son who wants nukes and who just had his father, mother, wife, and child murdered on the same day by his mortal enemy. surely this will bring peace to the region

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

“No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.” www.columnblog.com/p/corporate-...

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Corporate Media Buries Story of US and Israel Killing 168 in Girls School Attack

No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

They killed 180 children and their teachers in a double-tap strike on a school. The girls were 7 to 12 years old.

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Jordan aka Jirdan @slclunk.com · 28/02/2026

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

when MAGA white supremacists like Carl whinge abt passing of 1965 Hart-Celler Immigration Act they are complaining that it overturned 1924 Johnson-Reed Act, a law limiting immigration to people from Northern Europe, which was drafted by eugenicist Rep. Albert Johnson, with BIG support from the Klan

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libby watson @libbycwatson.com · 14/02/2026

hello and welcome to the political genius exam. here is question one. which is a more compelling message: - the president is sending armies to occupy cities and kidnap and kill people and your town could be next - a meal at the cheesecake factory that previously cost $100 now costs $104.9

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Sarah Arnold @sejarnold.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

As the last few years have seen some serious yield challenges in West African cocoa, leading to global price volatility (and noticeable increases in the price of chocolate bars, changes in recipes, etc.), let's think about just one part of this system: pollination. A thread 🧵 [1/]

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Just going to note again, because somehow we've all completely retconned this and I feel like I'm taking crazy pills, that pound-for-pound Biden had one of the most draconian border security regimes of any U.S. president ever, second only to Trump, *many of whose policies he inherited and kept*

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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

The term "nerve agent" is not the same thing as "some chemical that has some effect on some aspect of the nervous system" nor is it a blanket term for chemical warfare agents or banned chemical weapons.

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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Just as the best salesmen never lie, and the best conmen truly believe their own stories, perhaps the best AI researchers must create their own deceivers and believe their own creations." (Why We Fear AI, p. 36) 9/9

Of course, the problem was, in a sense, foreseen before dig-
ital computers even ran on transistors. In 1950, Alan Turing
famously proposed what would become known as the Turing
test: an observer is tasked with corresponding, in text form, with
two characters A and B. One of them is a person, and the other
is the machine in question. The observer’s task is to decide which
one is which. As is so often the case, the ideas behind the test must
have been in the air in some sense. Essentially the same idea, called
ABX testing, was proposed by two researchers at Bell Labs (of the
transistor). Munson and Gardner published their test one month
before Turing’s paper: here, a person is first presented with two
known stimuli, A and B. Then they are presented with stimulus
X, and asked to decide whether X is an A or a B.

In their case, Munson and Gardner were concerned with audi-
tory signals. The ABX test can be used to investigate the hearing of
participants—say, if you want to know what the highest frequency
is that someone can reliably detect. More commonly, however,
the test is used to evaluate the quality of lossy audio encodings
like MP3 (an encoding that includes only a part of the original

signal). The same is, of course, true for Turing’s test—perhaps
we could use it to test people for their ability to detect comput-
er-simulated faux persons—but generally, it is thought of as a test
to be passed by the machine in question. From that perspective,
it is clear that the machine’s task isn’t to “think” or be “general
purpose” (neither of which is a particularly well-scoped task).
Instead, the machine’s task is to fool the observer into saying it’s
the person. In other words, sidestepping the problem of scoping
“general purpose machines,” “thinking” or “intelligence” means
living in the liminal space between perception (by a person) and
deception (of a person). Perhaps the occult desire for animating
our golems lurks in the background still: what else is the Turing
test, but the desire to make the machine come to life? And once
the AI golem appears animated, who holds the secrets, who bears
that arcane animating knowledge that even the researchers profess
not to have? Who is left, but the machine itself! Just as the best
salesmen never lie, and the best conmen truly believe their own
stories, perhaps the best AI researchers must create their own
deceivers and believe their own creations.

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egg16z 🥚 @notlikewe.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Lots of folks saying “this is good” but no, it very much is not. 1) this is the 4th amendment 2) this is a historical norm at worst 3) this is already required 4) again, at worst an historic norm 5) 4A 6) 4A 7) fine 8) good if enforceable 9) useless 10) again, at worst a historical norm

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Arizona Right Watch @azrww.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”

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Daryl Surat @darylsurat.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

But you see, these AREN’T the only 7 Democrats who supported giving ICE more money. The Democrats OVERALL support it. These 7 are just the latest rotating villains selected to take the fall while the rest pretend to oppose to fundraise. That’s why it’s always EXACTLY enough Dem support votes to pass

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Jamie Schwesnedl @schwesbomb.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Concentration Camp: a prison or other facility used for the internment of political prisoners or politically targeted demographics, such as members of national or ethnic minority groups, on the grounds of national security, or for exploitation or punishment.

youtube.com

CNN’s Jake Tapper cuts off bookstore owner after clash over ‘concentration camps’ remark

YouTube video by Erik De La Garza

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Hakeem Jeffries deserves to be unemployed.

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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

ICE is seriously going to be Gaza all over again for Democrats isn’t it. They’re going to try it again, insisting if they just don’t talk about it then it’s not actually an issue that matters to millions of voters.

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farce majeure @hongpong.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

i think they're going to blink tbh

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Ben Rosen @benrosen.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

the problem with an untrained secret police squad that shoots people in their cars isn’t that they’re untrained

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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

you know what could prevent this is a really strong entrance exam

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

"The Democrats’ plan: TBD. There has been a lot of rhetoric, but ... the caucus is largely shying away from using its leverage in the appropriations process and threatening another government shutdown." “We’ll figure out the accountability mechanisms at the appropriate time" - Hakeem Jeffries

"The Democrats’ plan: TBD. There has been a lot of rhetoric, but as NOTUS’ Ursula Perano and Daniella Diaz report, the caucus is largely shying away from using its leverage in the appropriations process and threatening another government shutdown. “We’ll figure out the accountability mechanisms at the appropriate time,” Hakeem Jeffries told reporters. "

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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

i'm not saying this as anyone who knows anything about health; i'm saying it as someone who is an alleged expert in interest group politics: the American beef industry is all over MAHA, wellness, and podcast spaces. remember "bacon mania?" totally a marketing strategy by the pork industry.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 10/01/2026

Those of you who still insist on drawing a distinction between ICE and police should be aware that the police are not drawing that distinction.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Here’s a comment for the people who are upset that MN hasn’t charged Jonathan Ross already: If you just Leeeroy Jenkins this shit you will lose and you will empower fascism and murder. It is indescribably hard to prosecute cops for murder. It is even hard when the murder is ON VIDEO. /1

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David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

We are told that police need to be allowed to kill when they get scared but that everyone else must comport themselves perfectly or else they deserve to get whacked.

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Craig M. Ranapia @craigmranapia.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

This is probably going to demand a depressing amount of repetition, but here goes. If Renee Nicole Good was a childless foreign national, its still wasn't OK for a federal employee to straight up execute her. Begging everyone to not concede one inch of ground to this toxic framing.

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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

is it not weird that every day there’s a new video of anonymous masked men having the time of their lives beating/shooting/disappearing people and the dem response from the top down is “republicans want to double your health insurance premiums”

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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 07/01/2026

This is why I don't think "terrorist" can be reclaimed for any legitimate use on the left. This is a label that renders its object disposable--a justified target for state violence

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Adam Jacobson @adjacobson.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Is it strong or weak to throw trans people under the bus? Is it strong or weak to target and destroy homeless encampments? Is it strong or weak to adopt your nominal enemy's platform rather than stand on principles? Gtfoh.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

three bylines, six months late, almost zero new information we hadn't reported months ago. lowercased our name and mentioned deep in the story. no link to us. said they couldnt find the govt privacy document (we did). good job wall street journal

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 22/12/2025

Wait until they find out the current mayor of New York City hosted an actual neo-Nazi at the mayor’s mansion. Certainly they’ll issue a report or statement decrying that, and demanding he resign.

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