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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Trump Mobile customers had their personal data leaked by the ransomware gang BYOD. The dump includes names, emails, phone numbers, home addresses, etc. The gang says the company responded to news of the breach with, “We have no team to handle this.” san.com/cc/trump-mob...

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Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Before Stonehenge was raised, before Egypts first pyramid broke ground,before the Nazca people drew their famous lines across the Peruvian desert,someone in what is now southern Arizona shaped a 272-foot fish into the earth On April 23,2026,"a border-wall contractor drove heavy equipment across it"

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Trump's Border Wall Construction Destroys 6,500-Year-Old Arizona Geoglyph – Older Than Stonehenge

Arizona's 6,500-year-old Las Playas Intaglio, the oldest dated geoglyph in the Americas, was irreparably damaged by border wall construction in April 2026.

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Goddammit. The contempt these people have for everything wondrous and good and *human* is so grotesque.

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George William Herbert @georgewherbert.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The only thing I actually want from AI (but won’t get) would be context sensitive word suggestions. So I can have separate conversations about orbital launch trajectories & velocity, naval vessel equipment tradeoffs and new designs, fiction writing, and totally normal social conversations.

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Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 04/10/2026

It's Saturday night, time to post a thread of my all-time favorite live music performances, starting with the iconic Fleetwood Mac performance of Tusk with the USC marching band: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrRV...

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Fleetwood Mac "The Dance" TUSK

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George William Herbert @georgewherbert.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Me: anyt… Autocorrect: …ANTISHIP Me: …no, anything Autocorrect: (four lines down) ANTISHIP 🤦🏻‍♂️

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George William Herbert @georgewherbert.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Soon, every cert will expire every day. The trend is clear.

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George William Herbert @georgewherbert.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This is why YIMBY want most restrictions to go away. Too easy for several factions with little solid support to block any progress.

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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Impeach his ass 👇

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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Seriously 💥

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Andy Brockman @andybrockman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"It is outrageous that a mandatory submission platform can change their terms and propose using our hard work to train their AI models… This is not what we signed up to, nor do we consent to this." Justine Pedussel: President NUS Scotland WONKHE on the ownership & use of Student's IP in #AI LLM's.

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A supplier shouldn’t be able to rewrite who owns students’ essays

Sam Dickinson looks at Turnitin’s paused plan to put student essays to work on AI – and finds that neither anonymisation nor university regulations answer the copyright question

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George William Herbert @georgewherbert.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This, I think. And the AI datacenters mania came about five years before the small reactor nuclear programs were expecting to be ready…

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Chance the Lawyer @chancethelawyer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Texas bragging about eliminating the "Delaware-style" implied covenant of *good faith and fair dealing* in contracting is about all you need to know concerning where we are in the race to the bottom.

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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A revised version of this preprint is now posted on arXiv. The theory section is rewritten, improving model exposition based on feedback we received, we fixed some confusion and errors, contextualized the models more carefully so the interpretation becomes clearer, and improved the overall writing.

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The Difference Between "Replicable" and "Not Replicable" Is Not Itself Scientifically Replicable

Replication studies estimate the replicability rate of scientific results by aggregating binary verdicts of experiments as ``replicated'' and ``not replicated''. These estimates assume rarely attainab...

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George William Herbert @georgewherbert.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Doesn’t understand how he could possibly lose in a 60:40 state.

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Rebecca E ❌👑 @spoutiblegirl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Trump says he would have won CA“if that were an honest system.” Millions of Californians voted and he lost, so now their ballots are the scam? (He never would have won CA says this CA native) A president whose orbit runs on pay-to-play deals has no business trashing your vote. #PayToPlayPresident

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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 01/10/2026

A new lawsuit by journalist @bubbaprog.xyz reveals that the DOJ secretly searched his digital accounts for a wide range of materials. And prosecutors failed to tell the judges who signed off on it about a federal law that protects the press from search warrants… again.

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DOJ’s secret search of journalist’s accounts omitted press law

Journalist Tim Burke’s new lawsuit challenges the government’s search of months of emails, messages, files, and other information from his Google and Twitter accounts

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

University of Texas at Austin will eliminate 4 majors—African & African diaspora studies; Mexican American & Latina/o studies; women’s and gender studies; and race, indigeneity and migration. Faculty in Social and Culture Analysis Department received no explanation as to why they are being cut.

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UT Austin Axes Several Ethnic, Gender Studies Majors

Some faculty members consider the decision the next step in a broader effort to gut what remains of ethnic and gender studies at the university.

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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Headline writers saying Putin "warned the West against escalation" should stop helping the russian dictator manipulate the narrative. He started the war. If he attacks more European countries, he'll be escalating. The West hasn't matched his escalation, let alone ever escalated.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“.. We’re the only major country in the world losing visitation,” the head of the US Travel Association said. “It’s mind-boggling.” @semafor.com www.semafor.com/article/09/2...

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Creature of Hobbit 🇺🇦 @creatureofhobbit.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Then it should skip past his sorry ass and report directly to Jeeeeezussss

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

NEW: The Georgia State Election board is requesting Justice Department "intervention" ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. The board sent request letters to Todd Blanche, Harmeet Dhillon, and DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin. Docs obtained by @lawfaremedia.org: www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

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Formal Request for DOJ Intervention to Todd Blanche

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Melissa Jo Peltier @melissjpeltier.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

WTF? Just because they know Ossoff will win?

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

John Roberts' friend and defender is quoted in the piece, saying they shouldn't be shaming Roberts for the wreckage and ruin he's brought to this country because of "civility." The bullies always cry "civility" when the victims push back in the slightest.

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Sarah Burris @sarahburris.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Y'all I just caught the Kennedy Center claiming it isn't closing while telling vendors it's closing and now they're selling all of their Steinway pianos www.alternet.org/alternet-exc...

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Kennedy Center moves to sell all of its Steinway pianos

Photos show piano movers rolling massive Steinway grand pianos through the red-carpeted halls of the Kennedy Center this week.

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Analisa Swan (she/her) @analisaswan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Two counterterrorism agents were pushed out after questioning a terrorism probe tied to Stephen Miller’s wife. A top FBI official then resigned over the demotions. In Trump’s FBI, insiders don’t need cash to collect. Someone else’s job will do. #PayToPlayPresident

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Dictator Move of the Day.

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Dr. Asmeret Asefaw Berhe @aaberhe.com · 01/10/2026

Go California! $7.5B CA Science Bond now heading to the ballot! The bond would establish the largest ever state-level investment in critical scientific research, including a new “Cal-ARPA” initiative, modernizing our public research facilities, and clinical trials. www.gov.ca.gov/2026/09/30/a...

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At the top of the Golden Gate Bridge, Governor Newsom signs his final bill — investing in California’s next generation of innovation | Governor of California

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Kees van der Leun @sustainable2050.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

~426.0 ppm: September average of atmospheric CO2 at Mauna Loa, estimated from daily values. That's another ~1.7 ppm higher than last year. September is the lowest point in the seasonal cycle, and we won't see a value this low (but extremely high) for many generations to come.

13 months of daily, weekly, and monthly values, showing the seasonal swing with an underlying increase. September is the lowest point in the seasonal cycle.

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George William Herbert @georgewherbert.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The 50-64s then aged into 64+ now, but I don’t recall how they voted originally.

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George William Herbert @georgewherbert.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“Nice pair of skis you got there” *snik* “They’re just tongue depressers!” “Hand em over.”

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George William Herbert @georgewherbert.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The US is fairly alone in trying to deny the economic impacts of the Second Tanker War. Even our allies aren’t going along.

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 01/10/2026

The Trump administration has ordered Germany and France to release their emergency diesel inventories to curb surging global fuel prices. If they refuse, the US has threatened to impose a US diesel export ban. www.reuters.com/business/ene...

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EXCLUSIVE: US tells France and Germany to release diesel stocks or face US export ban, sources say

The Trump administration has told Germany and France to draw down emergency diesel inventories to help to ease global fuel prices or face a potential US diesel export ban, said ⁠three people close t...

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.

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Alex Dukalskis @alexdukalskis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My department - @ucdpolitics.bsky.social - is hiring two PERMANENT posts in any area of politics, international relations, theory, or development studies. Please apply if you are on the academic job market, and if you're not, please do us a solid & spread the word! Deadline NOV 9.

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George William Herbert @georgewherbert.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Remove generals: check New 4-star command: ???…

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I’m genuinely worried that he weakened her civil case with this statement out of petty fury that he’s rightfully getting heat for not pressing charges against rapists. He clearly isn’t interested in seeing her succeed and he basically called her a liar—a huge gift to the civil defense

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I missed Hegseth’s announcement and press conference on this.

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Effie Seiberg is a spooky Cyborg @effies.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

This is super cool bc: 1) Many of the highest-risk conditions, like ME/CFS & Long Covid, aren't on the list 2) The best way to protect the vulnerable is to protect the population so others don't infect them 3) None of this accounts for Novavax which is not mRNA www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

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CDC panel votes to limit who is eligible for this fall's Covid vaccine

Only people 65 and over or with underlying health conditions should get the shots, the advisory group recommended. There may be insurance roadblocks for others.

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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 29/09/2026

A fun quirk of American urban planning is production of 990 page documents where the observable universe is a narrow strip a hundred feet wide. The yellow areas are unmeasurable and unknowable, we can only infer their existence through the forces they exert elsewhere. berkeleyca.gov/sites/defaul...

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 29/09/2026

"Meta-Led Anti-Terrorism Group Faces Mass Resignation of Expert Advisers. Meta & other tech giants are pushing through structural changes at the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism that outside researchers allege will weaken oversight of an already embattled consortium."

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Meta-Led Anti-Terrorism Group Faces Mass Resignation of Expert Advisers

Meta and other tech giants are pushing through structural changes at the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism that outside researchers allege will weaken oversight of an already embattled consor...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.

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George William Herbert @georgewherbert.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This. And Gauri seems to be open to that..

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