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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 20h

One or more human beings are responsible for the code they wrote, and those are the people who should be held accountable. These programs are not acting “on their own”

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Incredible how the editors at @nytimes.com still don't understand how embarrassing it is to do this, and how it undermines the credibility of the paper and its journalists. It's like a toddler covering their face to play hide and seek. We see you but it's not cute, you look like an asshole.

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I saw a screencap somewhere of someone saying Newsom has Gul Dukat energy and I can’t stop thinking about how correct it is

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

People who unironically use the word "priors" always reveal themselves to have weird opinions on such as skull shape and the age of consent and whether women are people.

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"Are you selling me a solution or a dependency?" is a question I think more people should ask.

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Cerise Castle @cerisecastle.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The LA Co. Board of Supervisors delayed voting on a motion that would force the Sheriff's Dept to name deputy gangs within its ranks on Tuesday. The move came in front of about 30 uniformed personnel who filled the meeting's gallery. www.patreon.com/lasdgangs/po...

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Survivor’s Hopes Dashed As Deputy Gang Transparency Vote Postponed | LA Sheriff Gangs

LA County Supervisors move to hold vote on forcing Sheriff’s Dept to ID insider gangs Nearly fifty people in matching orange T-shirts lined

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 10/09/2026

A new Medicare program uses AI to evaluate prior authorization requests. New records obtained by EFF show that this program has resulted in widespread delays and denials of care, operational chaos, and reports of patients waiting in pain. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

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New Records Reveal Problems with Medicare’s AI Prior Authorization

EFF sued the government for information a new Medicare program that uses AI to evaluate prior authorization requests for certain medical services. Today, we’re releasing approximately 1,000 pages of

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 07/09/2026

Every organization and state entity that's holding sensitive data needs to think real hard about how much of that data they actually need to have, how to store it, and what their plan is if the feds come after it.

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As California debated sharing data on drivers, Homeland Security subpoenaed 17 million records

Privacy advocates raised alarms as California lawmakers voted to share driver license information with a national nonprofit database. Then, the Trump administration sought trucker records from the org...

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the-puritan.bsky.social @the-puritan.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Hey, so i do this for a living. First of all, it's a 6-month prognosis, not 3. It's also a bit of a moving target, since a patient has ups and downs during that period. You don't kick someone off immediately if they rebound a little, but you do need to prove that a patient is trending downwards

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 28/08/2026

"You can’t complain about the price of housing if you refuse to move hundreds of miles away to a city I just learned about for the purposes of this bad-faith argument." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/why...

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Why Aren’t People Moving to This Town with Cheap Housing and Literally Nothing Else

“Sure, this city is in the middle of nowhere, isn’t near major job markets, and doesn’t have maintained roads, well-funded schools, or functioning emergency ...

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

"hmm maybe this whole Arday affair shows that we need to have a Serious Conversation about whether Woke 1.0 overreached in manner X, Y, of Z" motherfucker you are generally in Fascism 487.0, as is this particular affair you're talking about. worry about *that*. /Final

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Actually, one more - I feel like I should say this directly, so here goes. In the 90s and 00s, the groups I remember pursuing this strategy (hyperpublicize mugshots, Black crime statistics, etc) were Stormfront, the Klan, etc. Now it's the New York Times and the Telegraph. That is the story here.

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 04/08/2026

It is 2006. I am 22. The US is mired in a costly Forever War. A predictable historic market collapse looms. I do not have health insurance. It is 2026. I am 42. The US is mired in a costly Forever War. A predictable historic market collapse looms. I do not have health insurance.

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Elizabeth Joh @elizabethjoh.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

which is why the “what have you got to hide” misunderstands the privacy issue

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Angry Allosaurus @angryallosaurus.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

The marshmallow test was also a test of "do the adults in the kid's life follow through with their promises?"

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bertwells.bsky.social @bertwells.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

The Marshmallow Test turned out not to be a test of rationality or the ability to delay gratification; it was a test of hunger and food precarity. Which the smoothbrains at Stanford should have known, btw. The "million v billion" question is probably also not a test of numeracy either.

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 16/07/2026

This is way more than the Department of Energy spends on all of the renewable energy, energy efficiency, clean vehicles, and battery research and development, combined.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 14/07/2026

"I’ve had debates with members of different political persuasions on whether we should eat the man we caught in a net... Those aren’t the types of discussions you’re likely to have in public, especially when much of the media is ready to pounce on celebs for stepping out of line."

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My Critics Are Missing the Nuance of My Membership in the Wealthy People Hunting Poor People for Sport Club

“Over the last couple of years, I’ve been focused on making a positive impact on how the future unfolds, especially in tech, AI, and which areas of the body ...

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Caregiving Crank @gt4pete.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I can’t be the only one who every time Bellingham gets mentioned immediately thinks of Tracy Jordan talking about how he knows an Arsenio Bellingham right?

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Jaime Omar Yassin [TNH] @hyphyrepublic.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I don't know if ALCO Sheriff think the public is stupid, but recovering County owned vehicles shouldn't be something that requires Flock. If the vehicles did not have GPS, they should have, and if they did, that means that's how they were found.

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Caregiving Crank @gt4pete.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

“He’s like a Sunday show, stern and confidently wrong.”

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

It takes 1.28 seconds for a message to reach us from the Moon. It takes as little as 35 minutes from Jupiter. It takes as little as 4.5 hours from Pluto. It takes at least 6-12 months from NYT reporters, plus $35 for the book containing it.

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chelsea bridge 🩸 @secretaboutbox.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

software has gotten continually worse over the past 20 years so we trained a robot to reproduce it at a scale you can't review

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

I’m still on a bit of a high for this. Bolts didn’t exist four and a half years ago, and now it’ll be in the canon of the Supreme Court — you don’t have to tell me what to think of SCOTUS, but it’s the cool feeling of how far you’ve come.

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

we're giving iran about as much money as all the gold in fort knox

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 13/06/2026

Obviously, this is great to see, but it isn’t a surprise. The fascists were able to go on their racist rampage not because their community broadly wanted it, but because a small minority called “police” allowed it.

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Something underreported: in their reconciliation bill, Republicans are forgoing even the normal (inefficient) oversight and restrictions on ICE/CBP funding. For instance, normally there’s a prohibition on shackling pregnant women. But not for this new money they’re providing. (1/3)

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jenna ruddock @ruddock.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

your regular reminder that the national shoplifting crisis was a manufactured moral panic largely engineered by corporations in order to cover up their own mismanagement — and that wage theft is the largest category of theft in the U.S.

LA Times headline: "Retailers say thefts are a crisis level. The numbers say otherwise."

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

9 months old and still so true. “ If you’re pushing slop or eating it, you wouldn’t read it anyway. You’d ask a bot for a summary and forget what it told you, then proceed with your day, unchanged by words you did not read and ideas you did not consider.”

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Sen. Pumpkin Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Musk v Altman JUDGE: The jury has sent a question and the answer is no, the death penalty is not "available for both sides" please return to the jury room and limit your consideration to civil damages.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

I think voters might be a little more enthusiastic about the Democratic party if their elected officials didn't so clearly despise them

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

It is remarkable how many establishment Dems simply do not understand they are in the middle of an existential war against MAGA politics, and that there’s no co-existence possible here.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

New from me: Five years ago, I criticized a San Francisco TV reporter for getting her facts wrong. Ever since, she and her allies have alleged that I was part of a conspiracy to end her career. That narrative just got a boost with her new book, which is being promoted by some powerful tech people.

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Truth, power, and honest journalism

Gary Tan, the CEO of venture capital firm Y Combinator, accused me of unethical reporting. This is my response.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

One of the VERY FIRST things done after the Constitutional Convention in 1787 was to have the text of the new Constitution translated into Dutch and German, which were at the time the two largest non-English language spoken in the United States. Here's the National Archives making this point:

The months between signing and ratification were a busy period for the country. The proceedings of the Constitutional Convention had been kept secret, so each state needed to inform its voters of what exactly the proposed new government contained. Congress therefore directed the state legislatures to call ratification conventions in each state, with delegates specifically elected to approve or disapprove the new government.

However, this meant that each state from New Hampshire to Georgia had to receive a copy of the text, submit it to public debate, elect delegates, meet, vote, and return the results to Philadelphia. In an era where the speed of travel was limited by horseback, stagecoach, and boat, this was no quick feat. After the end of the Convention the news of the Constitution spread out in a wave, and thousands of copies were republished by local printers and distributed for debate. A flurry of newspaper articles, pamphlets, and public meetings followed, hotly debating whether the Constitution would be a good framework for a new national government.

Part of the debate and ratification process involved translation: non-negligible portions of the electorate spoke languages other than English. To reach them, the document was translated into Dutch in New York and German in Pennsylvania and Maryland.

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Zoe Tillman @zoetillman.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

"The Government cannot escape liability for DOGE’s work by scapegoating ChatGPT." A US judge slammed DOGE's use of AI in a decision today blocking the termination of $100M in humanities grants, finding DOGE lacked authority and unlawfully based decisions on race and viewpoint buff.ly/Qw0qcDH

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

/5 This is a sin throughout the media, left and right, and part of the corruptly cozy relationship with law enforcement. When insiders tip about pending arrests and searches and case developments they are breaking policy and the law to hurt and demean targets and defendants….

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Every splashy New York Times profile of a right wing influencer.

Bugs Bunny giving a monster a manicure, caption: My I'll bet you monsters lead interesting lives.

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Lilly Irani @gleemie.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

This is a problematic take. 1. This author draws on personal LLM experiences, such as tutoring as a PhD holder. Actual studies that show mixed results for LLMs as tutors in, say, CS education, including cognitive offloading and students not building relationships with other people.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

what is the fucking point of an opposition party that acts like this

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Jake Lahut @jakelahut.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Given that it's usually the guest's prerogative how their work experience appears on the chyron, it's telling that McLaughlin listed the Vivek Ramaswamy campaign and not DHS as her former employer

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

If you ever encounter an omniscient being it would be really easy to make fun of it and bully it. You could be like "hey you know what it feels like to get crushed to pulp inside a whale's asshole while trying to fuck it" and guess what knowing literally everything means

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Olivia Gonzalez Killingsworth 🌹🦾 🐜 @oliviakillingsworth.com · 26/04/2026

The press corps, sadly, seems to have made the very mistaken assumption that this nation's security apparatus has any more interest in protecting them from gun violence than it does for other ordinary citizens who aren't members of this administration.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 26/04/2026

Can’t wait for like, 500 articles that are like “as I dived under a table to hide from the shooter I realized I had to be even more sycophantic to the White House”

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 19/04/2026

The swing from Swalwell to Becerra among insiders, as if they were interchangeable widgets, is deeply illustrative of the Iron Law of Institutions. Bearstar, etc., would rather prop a new stalking horse up — and risk letting two Republicans into the general — than cede their power over the party.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 13/04/2026

Literally any city, you’re going to be surprised by how much money goes to policing.

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Caregiving Crank @gt4pete.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Swalwell is in the news today. Just a reminder for all the Dems that he endorsed the recall of the sitting DA in his own district who was a Dem for his own benefit. He's been terrible for years, with zero principles other than the lowest bar, Trump.

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Terry J. Harris @trryjhrrs.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Oregon water managers need to drive a harder bargain with these data centers. Like, if they're using 40% of the water, they ought to be purchasing 80% of a water recycling plant to feed their cooling systems and remove pressure on drinking water systems.

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