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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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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026

Reuters got some of the IPO docs. Anthropic is a total dog of a company. Spent $12.6bn to make $4.6bn in revenue in 2025, $7.33bn of which was compute costs. Operating loss of $8bn. Losses getting worse year over year. Amazing stuff www.reuters.com/business/fin...

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• Anthropic IPO could value the company at more than $2
trillion
• Anthropic lost $42 billion in 2025
• Al lab spent $7.33 billion on compute and infrastructure last year
• Operating loss widened to $8.06 billion in 2025 from $2.98 billion in 2024
• Execs, industry analysts have expressed concerns over harms of Al tech
Sept 28 (Reuters) - Anthropic is making a massive bet that Al will transform the global economy more profoundly than industrialization, electricity and the internet, according to its IPO prospectus seen by Reuters.
But the cost to get there will be staggering. Anthropic reported a net loss of $42 billion in 2025, and plans to spend $518 billion on cloud, computing and infrastructure obligations in coming year, according to the
prospectus.

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Constant Screaming @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We are within a hairs-breadth of a gov't council on physical fitness summit about the benefits of rape for men.

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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

AI #slopaganda is not so much about fakes or disinformation. It's about aligning the world with your preformulated descriptions of it, making reality disappear behind its formulaic image, rendering visible all your fears at once in order to enjoy them more. It's a technology of fascist daydreaming

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A Thiel-Altman-&-Andreessen backed “network state” called Praxis is planning a tech colony in Uruguay & has a nonbinding deal w/ a development led by a former advisor to Javier Milei. Located a short ferry ride from Argentina, the move aligns w/ the “Tech Bros”’ increasing interest in the region. 1/

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A mass walkout of the UN General Assembly as Benjamin Netanyahu begins his speech.

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Fabio Chiusi @fabiochiusi.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

““any mention of civil rights, feminism or social reform [topics that are central to Woolf’s work] are usually classified as ‘social topics’ by our automatic system” and are filtered out.” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Meta bans ads for Virginia Woolf play in Spain because they relate to feminism

Theatre told that Facebook and Instagram filter out ads mentioning ‘social topics’ such as civil rights or feminism

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It’s not “third-country deportation,” it’s an extraordinary rendition, complete with torture and enforced silence by the “host” country’s thugs. And it’s a direct consequence of never imposing punishment on the CIA for doing this during the War on Terror.

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A Central African Hotel Has Become a Nightmare Prison for U.S. Deportees

Witnesses say men were hooded and beaten in Equatorial Guinea. The autocratic government there is a partner in President Trump’s deportation program.

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Heleen Touquet @heleentouquet.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

For a few seconds I thought Kernel Panic was a Bosnian name.

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VBG @256bit.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I love this 😂😂😂

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Take a moment to ponder just how depraved this is.

UK Lawyers for Israel calls to proscribe Doctors Without Borders as terror group
UKLFI has been at the forefront of efforts to discredit and pressure aid groups helping Palestinians

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Lisa Guerrero @lisaguerrero.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Not only did I meet Robert Kraft, I worked for him. His kid Jonathan asked me to “remove the black music” from my gameday playlist in ‘94 & I refused so they fired me. I was the cheerleader director at the time. I sued them for wrongful termination and won. So yes, I know that motherfucker.

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Manuel Oberhuber @manueloberhuber.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Unglaublich: Diese Stange wurde vor einem Jahr in das Eis des größten Gletschers der Alpen gebohrt, dem Aletschgletscher. 🇨🇭 Allein in den letzten 3 Monaten sind hier fast 6 Meter Eis geschmolzen. Der Rekordsommer 2026 hinterlässt tiefe Spuren. 📸 A. Linsbauer via @matthias_huss

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026

Kremlev, the Russian who sponsored Don Jr's wedding, is a former member of the Night Wolves biker gang, went to China with Putin and is personally sanctioned by Ukraine for his role in abducting children. He praises Stalin on social media www.propublica.org/article/dona...

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Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch

The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...

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Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Our new volume on Global Platform Governance is now available for pre-orders, gathering perspectives from academics and practitioners all over the world on key debates around regulating platforms so that folks are not just engaging what works for the US or the EU. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/global-pl...

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Global Platform Governance

This is a field-defining open access playbook for identifying and responding to the global regulatory challenges created by large digital platforms.Here Nanjala…

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Happy birthday to David Wojnarowicz, groundbreaking artist, writer & activist, who raged raged raged against inequity and injustice at every turn. If he hadn’t died of AIDS, like so many leading lights of his generation, he would have been 72 years old today (thread)

A black-and-white photograph of artist & writer David Wojnarowicz, with added elements including red and yellow flames along the right side of his body, and maps over his face and neck

A photo of artist David Wojnarowicz wearing a jacket; on the back is a pink triangle and the legend, "If I die of AIDS-forget burial-just drop my body on the steps of the F.D.A."

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Alan Jagolinzer @jagolinzer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

“What we do know...is that crypto and meme assets have already become what I consider to be a financial cesspool that is leveraged by many of the darkest actors on the planet.” My 2025 testimony in Democracy Shield hearings at European Parliament. youtu.be/xJaJfROLs6Y?...

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Prof Jagolinzer testifies to EU Parliament about the dark uses of cryptocurrency

YouTube video by Cambridge Disinformation Summit

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 11/09/2026

I'm tracking anti-trans ad spending live via Meta and Google's political ad libraries. There's an absolute tsunami of it that started in September.

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 11/09/2026

The entire US apparatus to monitor for election interference from abroad has been dismantlesmd and what was left has been repurpose to work on rounding up the undocumented. bsky.app/profile/soci...

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

this reminds me of documentaries of Mussolini‘s speeches — the script writers here must have watched them on repeat

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This was built over decades: The creation of a far-right media and dark money messaging ecosystem outside legacy media; a judiciary stacked with far-right judges; right-wing beach heads and professors at colleges; right-wing takeover of traditional media… We’ve been hollowed out by the businessmen.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 10/09/2026

i am looking forward to seeing this

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Peter Jelinek @peterjelinek.eurosky.social · 09/09/2026

"Dass die Nazis unsere Feinde sind. Mein Gott! Wir brauchten doch bitteschön nicht Hitlers Machtergreifung, um das zu wissen. Das war doch seit mindestens vier Jahren jedem Menschen, der nicht schwachsinnig war, völlig evident."

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Toby Vogel 🇪🇺 @tobyvogel.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Huckabee is obviously completely clueless and merely parroting Dodik’s talking points (if this tweet is even accurate), but this will further inflame the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina (and is probably intended to do so).

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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Levi noticed that during election night, the live stream of the official AfD YouTube channel played a techno version of “Erika”, the most popular marching song of the Wehrmacht. They want us to know!

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Noah Barkin @noahbarkin.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Far-right tech bro Musk applauds far-right AfD victory

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

"What makes the AfD’s rise especially shocking is that it is much more extreme than other European far-right parties… [becoming] more radical over time, deepening its ties to neo-Nazis & promising to repatriate migrants. As it has done so, it has grown more popular." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/o...

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Opinion | Something Alarming Is About to Happen in Germany

The government is seemingly incapable of stopping the far right.

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Max the comics guy who does comics about comics @waitingforthetrade.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Stephanie Brown: You don’t want to mess with Batman, he trained for years with Tibetan hunks. Tim Drake: Monks. Stephanie Brown: Oh, that’s less interesting.

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Wouter de Boer @weedebee.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Als je ze loslaat op wetenschappelijke artikelen, passen LLM's automatisch 'cryptogyny' toe: het systematisch weglaten of verdoezelen van de (vaak substantiële) bijdragen van vrouwen in de wetenschap. ('Crypto' is Grieks voor 'verborgen' en 'gyne' staat voor 'vrouw'.) Lees Iris van Rooij hierover:

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I don't think it should be controversial to say, "we will not provide financial or military assistance to a country where the Minister of National Security brags about popping people's dreams of 'food' and 'education' then sending them to a prison where they are starved."

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Excellent piece that articulates many of the parallels I was thinking about when I read Dalrymple's book on the East India Company: how do governments control companies that more economically powerful than most countries, and can purchase political influence in the most powerful country?

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Sat directly opposite a guy on the M8 tram this afternoon who was wearing a bag and a T-shirt bearing the Imperial Germany flag, Ellesse shorts, and New Balance socks. You don’t wear that combination of colours and brands by accident. The message: “it’s our time now.”

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Robert Heinze @rheinze.myatproto.social · 25/08/2026

New Open Letter by Ghent colleagues refuting the allegations in those two letters of support for Cofnas: - not suspended because of „whistleblowing“ - many problems with and protests about his behaviour long before Arday

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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Palestinian artist Sliman Mansour, who died yesterday at 79, spent decades making art that insisted on Palestinian presence: its people, land, memory and everyday life. His painting “A Family Without a Shadow” appears in this @newlinesmag.bsky.social essay newlinesmag.com/argument/the...

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The Erasure of Palestinian Society

Israel's long-standing strategy of ignoring the agency and lived reality of millions of men, women and children has taken on horrific new dimensions

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roterote @roterote.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I can highly recommend @hopenothate.org.uk ‘s report Race Science Inc. as a good starting place to understand how a eugenicist like Nathan Cofnas can get hired at two prestigious universities over more qualified candidates. This is a major far right project to give the academy’s legitimacy to them.

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Race Science Inc. | HOPE not hate

Undercover in The Human Diversity Foundation, the million-dollar race science company

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/08/2026

I've never seen such an effort to censor a document as I have the Amnesty International report on gender critical groups because of JK Rowling. They removed the report from the Wayback Machine and now I got a DMCA strike on my Google Drive for having it. It was deleted and removed from my account.

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A nearly identical mobile browser screenshot of the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. It shows a search for the same Amnesty International UK resources URL, resulting in the same message: "This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine."

A mobile browser screenshot of the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. A URL for an Amnesty International UK resources page is entered in the search bar, but the page displays the message: "This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine."

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VBG @256bit.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

It is quite impressive, in a negative way, how Serbian regime manages to do every situation worse! We have huge fires in Deliblato national parks for the better part of the month. Regime REFUSED EU help, even though we are in a programme where we would get it promptly. They waited for RUSSIAN help🤬

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 19/08/2026

I don't think people understand the extent to which this has been a decade plus long billionaire funded campaign (obviously Thiel is involved). We've tried to ring the alarm about these eugenicists but it is too easy for them to get parroted by the mainstream media. bylinetimes.com/2026/08/18/t...

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The Peter Thiel-Linked Race Science Network that Penetrated Cambridge University and Targeted Jason Arday

The media's coverage of the academic's life was fuelled by the campaign of an established far-right network

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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

And guess who's helping them mainstreaming race science and eugenics? «Pinker’s appearance marks another milestone in the efforts of many in Silicon Valley and rightwing media and at the fringes of science to rehabilitate previously discredited models of a biologically determined racial hierarchy.»

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Harvard author Steven Pinker appears on podcast linked to scientific racism

Psychologist and writer’s appearance on Aporia condemned for helping to normalise ‘dangerous, discredited ideas’

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