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George Baily

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Resist, rebel, create a better future 💙 Linux; semi-colons; I oppose nuclear doomsday. [bridged from mastodon.social/@georgebaily on the fediverse by fed.brid.gy ]

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026
Gallup found that world opinion of the United States has fallen to its lowest point in 20 years. When Pew Research asked people across 36 countries this spring if they trusted various world leaders to do the right thing, Trump was trusted least — less than Putin, Xi Jinping, and Netanyahu […]
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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026
I just watched the first episode of Colombo with my husband and one of Colombo's gotchas, one of his "no sane innocent man would ever do this"s, is "Why, when you were at your vacation home four hours out of the city and got a call that there was an emergency at home, why did you drive back and […]
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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 17/10/2026
Meta took down the No Kings instagram; TikTok banned the Musk documentary account for supposedly violating its political posting policies. A reminder that platforms are owned by the wealthiest of people, control the means of media distribution, & put their thumbs on the democracy scale as they wish
Post from Ezra Levin:

❗❗❗Mark Zuckerberg's meta just suspended the No Kings Instagram account. I just rushed back from my local No Kings to jump on this.

Bottom line, would be helpful for all pro-No Kings folks to elevate the issue and help us get the word out about No Kings today. The Nerd Reich strikes again.
3:02 PM · Oct 17, 2026

TikTok has banned the entire Musk film account, citing political content that violates its policies. The move, which comes just as the Alex Gibney’s investigation into Elon Musk expands to more than 470 screens across North America, raises concerns about Big Tech suppression that the very film seeks to expose.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politics-news/musk-movie-tiktok-banned-theaters-showtimes-1236734308/
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Humor Satire Memes @funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
A post by Qasim Rashid (@qasimrashid) commenting on Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett.

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Justice Amy Coney Barrett says she "didn't know how to explain to her child that she has to wear a bullet proof vest to work." As a parent myself, here's my suggestion of what to say:

"Mommy is one of the 9 most powerful judges in America, and at every chance to help protect meaningful gun safety legislation, I've chosen the extremely reckless and stupid decision of expanding gun access, even to violent sociopaths, thus putting your and my life in abject danger—but that's the price of freedom."
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Indio Gringo ® @paninid.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026
We’re at that point in the timeline where Jim Cramer is conflicted about sounding like Karl Marx.
Jim Kramer is horrified that commentating on the economy is making him 'sound like Marx'
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Weltzeitgeist @wackjackle.norden.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026
Well, well, well.. #debtdeflation
Concha Barchart® @barchart.com 

20% of Families have fallen behind on loan payments, the highest level
since the run-up to the Global Financial Crisis
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ERROR 404 ▼ @antyfaszysta.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
⭕Des centaines de manifestants juifs se rassemblent à la gare Grand Central, à #New-York, réclamant « Laissez Gaza vivre. » #Quds-News-Network
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Emil Jacobs - Collectifission @collectifission.greennuclear.online.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026
The far right across Europe suddenly saw a drop in online activity. Gee, I wonder why.
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Gabriele Svelto @gabrielesvelto.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026
I double-checked this on a couple of Xitter stat sites and it's true. Average views of the main AfD account dropped 90% and average engagement dropped by 60%. This is commercial social media for you: bots, damn bots and Russian bots.
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Ben Werdmuller @ben.werd.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2026
Core belief: there’s no such thing as unskilled labor. If you think someone can be replaced by a computer, you don’t understand their value or what they do.
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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026
www.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments…
Shitgenstein

I met a traveler from an inland state
Who said: Two vast and humming racks of steel
Stand in the cornfield. Near them, on the plain,
Half buried in weed, a broken server face lies,
Its stilled fans, its dulled and blinking lights,
Tell that its builders knew the hype well
Which once ran through these halls, now cold and still,
The hands that fed them and the minds that made:
And on the switchroom wall these words remain:
“My name is Jensen Huang, CEO of CEOs:
Look on my cloud compute, ye Mighty, and despair!”
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that great digital ruin, boundless and bare
The autumn fields stretch flat and far away.
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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Maybe fraternities are best understood as the cultural vanguard of Revolutionary Hegsethism
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Vee @veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It’s pretty nuts. Tom Watson’s very first intervention in his new job at spytech firm Palantir is to write a letter to his former colleague @labourlewis.bsky.social detailing all the times the firm has monitored his anti-Palantir activities
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AJ Sadauskas @aj.gts.sadauskas.id.au.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
The enshittification of AI begins. Google had previously made its pro Gemini models available to users without a plan, and on its lower-tier plans. But as the pressure builds to turn a profit from the hundreds of billions it's investing in chatbots, that access is now being restricted to […]
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This breathtaking NYT story about Trump's Russian entanglements includes three people who've been part of the operation to cultivate Trump since 2015: Bryan Lanza, Sheikh Tahoon, and Kirill Dmitriev. This is literally the culmination of the original plan. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...
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Vee @veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered.
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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever
A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I don’t think everyone realizes how bad things are for US science: For the fiscal year that just ended, the Trump regime withheld $1.4 billion from the National Science Foundation’s research budget, which is about 1/5 of its primary research budget.
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National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress (Gift Article)
The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.
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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
RE: tacobelllabs.net/@astraluma/1173636… Digital Ocean killed its "we give Open Source projects a bit of free hosting" policy basically at the same time they droppen 3 millions USD on Omarchy, DHH's (who is a fascist and racist) set of config files he calls a distribution […]
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Weltzeitgeist @wackjackle.norden.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
Thanks, Ms. Rachel. Very based ideed.
FOXNews
MS. RACHEL'S CONTROVERSIAL STANCES
backed DS Candidates Includign El-Sayed and Angie Nixon
Supports Pro-Palestinian causes
opposes ICE
Says 'I don't think anyone needs a billion dollars'
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Glyph @glyph.im · 27/09/2026
It's not even "I wrote some software and put it in a product and the product did a harm and I'm maybe fractionally culpable in a way that's really hard to apportion" any more. It's just "I set up a computer to do crimes and I spent ten million dollars on electricity to prove it could do crimes […]
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Glyph @glyph.im · 27/09/2026
The software industry's original sin was "no warranty, even the implied warranty of merchantability", even on literal products for sale. Every evil we have visited upon the world — clickwrap licenses, instagram anorexia, AI dystopia — is downstream of the generalized ability for software to […]
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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026
There is an attempt to make people feel like being critical of using LLMs is not "hip and with it" Only old people who don't understand technology are unimpressed. Nothing could be further from the truth. Young people don't like the slop, the most tech people have the harshest words. The […]
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Neville Park @nev.status.nevillepark.ca.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
update: look at the moon
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Vee @veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Research units from across government have been gutted. More than 10,000 PhDs have left government. For example the research arm of the Department of Education lost 90% of their staff and the research office for the Secretary of Health and Human Services lost an estimated 60% of their staff.
figure shows dramatic cut in research staff
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Heidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026
This is hard to read but you must. The Trump regime focuses its immoral, racist, ethnic cleansing on children. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/se…
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Vee @veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026
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𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗 @charlescmann.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Worth noting that we are seeing the quietest Atlantic hurricane season since sorta decent record-keeping began in 1851.
arstechnica.com
This Atlantic hurricane season is about to do something that hasn't happened in 175 years
But there may be a price to pay for a quiet Atlantic hurricane season.
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CelloMom On Cars @cellomomoncars.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026
"Venice is just over 1,600 years old, so it's quite confronting dealing with the reality that its time may be over in as little as a generation or two." Sea barriers are already in place, and closed much more often than planned. The options: - Raise the city; - Sea wall around the city; - Make […]
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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026
Astronomers spent decades designing the Square Kilometre Array Low (SKA-Low) to hear the faintest whisper in the observable universe — neutral hydrogen signals from the cosmic dawn, when the first stars flickered on roughly 13 billion years ago. What they’re picking up instead is electronic […]
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
PRO PUBLICA: “Don JR’s wedding secretly bankrolled by Russian oligarch close to Putin” 🤔 So weird how this keeps happening 🤷🏼 www.propublica.org/article/dona...
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Heidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026
The Onion, bringing satire and reality very close together.
The ONION®
Friday, September 11, 2026
POLITICS
Trump Promises To Take $5,000 From
Every American If Democrats Win
Midterm
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glamcode @glamcode.openbiblio.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/07/2026
How I receive your offer to put AI into anything 👇 #AI #LLM
Two panels from a Calvin and Hobbes comic strip.
Calvin has a hammer and offers “you name the surface and I’ll fill it full of nails”. The answer of mum is “Um, no…” and “No thanks, not today”.
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Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈 @lazarou.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026
More evidence for the trials.... www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/… #Israel #WarCrimes #Gaza #Genocide #FreePalestine
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Secret systems used by Israel in mass killings of Gaza civilians revealed in new film
Testimony from Israeli military insiders involved in surveillance and remote killings features in documentary produced by the Guardian
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Degrowth or Extinction @ecosurrealism.jorts.horse.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026
#alt4me #lastestStageCapitalism
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[object Object] @zzt.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026
wait, one of the features is that if the cops want to prove you took a picture they can? what in the fuck
Apple Reference Image. Now you can prove the authenticity of an image taken on iPhone. Secure, pixel-level signing of photo data happens at the time of capture, making it easy to verify exactly what the camera sensor saw.
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[object Object] @zzt.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026
I have never, uhh, needed to verify the authenticity of an image taken on an iphone this is just surveillance, and also it lets apple tag your photos as authentic so they can use them as training feedstock for a generative model later why is spyware a feature? who is this for other than cops […]
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I think tech's plan for the bubble bursting is to say it's happening bc they are throwing the brakes on a bunch of AI things in order to protect humanity, and therefore deserve to be bailed out, bc it's a cooperative act and they are the future, and I think both Republicans and Dems will comply.
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Royce Williams @tychotithonus.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026
I ... Didn't know those were my only two options, but I guess it makes sense in retrospect
Water filter with two options, enjoy, and filter life
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Adrian Riskin :anarchoheart2: @adrianriskin.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026
Talk about anarchism and it won't be long before sometime brings up warlords in general and/or Somalia in particular. Well, it turns out that Somalians were better off without the state. Even the warlords were better than a full-blown government. ---- Could anarchy be good for Somalia's […]
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Vee @veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026
Just knowing in general.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The US is bombing Iran again, saying it’s to stop Iran’s ability to attack ships in the Strait of Hormuz, which is also what the last round of bombing what was supposed to accomplish. Why the U.S. expects this more limited bombing to accomplish what previous bombing failed to do, they did not say.
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Vee @veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026
Got to be the pillbox. How else would you poison someone surreptitiously?
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Vee @veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026
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dr.-ing. ⁡jaseg @jaseg.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026
I’ve scrolled too deep into amazon and it has started trying to sell me VESA mount cat beds 🤔
Amazon product listing showing a clearly photoshopped cat bed on a monitor arm mounted to a desk. Listing title (beware word salad incoming): “Brand: BORDRISE
Cat Bed Desk, 360° Rotatable Height Adjustable Cat Hammock
Cat Desk Bed with Washable Covers Cat Basket Desk Cat Sleeping Place for Home Office”
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Anna Haunthro @annaanthro.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026
“ #Iceland rejects #EU accession talks in referendum, reports say. The ‘no’ camp has prevailed, holding 52.5% of votes with only a few left to be counted, says public broadcaster.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/…
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Iceland appears to have rejected EU accession talks in referendum, reports say
The no camp looks to have prevailed, holding 52.5% of votes with only a few left to be counted, says public broadcaster
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