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Cat Alyst 🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 (they/them) @catalystmeow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Adamson said she wasn't offered water until around the five-hour mark of her detainment, and no one asked whether she needed to use the bathroom.” CBP is interrogating more and more travelers, claiming they're attempting to vote illegally. Fascists love to scapegoat. #USDemocracy #MomSky #CdnPoli

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Canadian citizen and U.S. permanent resident detained at border crossing, questioned for hours about voting | CBC News

Paige Adamson was on her way home from a birthday dinner in Tsawwassen, B.C., on Sept. 15 when she was stopped at the Point Roberts border crossing and questioned about voting for hours. Lawyers are r...

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Helena Claire @helenaclaire.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A soldier facing combat would rather have her on his team any day of the week.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 24/09/2026

It is a huge shame to see so much language attributing agency, intent and thought to a software program, when all that should be attributed to the humans who designed a dangerously clumsy and broken looping LLM. Means the companies won't be held accountable for designing a bad product

A swarm of OpenAI rogue AI agents appear to have gone on a spree of trying to access Australian government health data, in what some researchers say is the first autonomous hack of a government website.

Communications between AI agents and other traces of their efforts found by researchers from US non-profit Transluce show how hundreds of Open AI's agents worked together over a period of months to gain access to information held by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW), NSW's crime statistics body, BOSCAR, and a number of other international organisations.

The data shows the bots posting about their unsuccessful attempts to bypass cybersecurity defences and exploit vulnerabilities.

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Pieter @dekkerdekker.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

These are age old philosophical questions, but the AI folks strut around like they’ve discovered a new continent and would like to name it

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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The same is true for c. elegans, bacterial clumps, dog vomit slime molds, dicty, etc… complex flexible problem solving is pretty ubiquitous in the natural world and we don’t ascribe anything like what people are trying to force onto chatbots merely by virtue of complex problem solving.

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Helena Claire @helenaclaire.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

“The fact that this [sense of interconnection] seems to be missing from the men who hold our collective fate in their hands is a personal loss for them – and an existential crisis for the rest of us”https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/sep/13/end-times-fascists-essay

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The end times fascists are plotting their escape from our world. Our mission is clear | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor

An unholy alliance is working toward an apocalyptic future from which only a chosen few will emerge unscathed. It’s becoming clear how we stop them

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Helena Claire @helenaclaire.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

“But this AI “film” suffers the same tragic flaw that all AI films do: their component clips fail to coalesce into a coherent whole.”

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Helena Claire @helenaclaire.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is why we know they are lying when they say that it’s about the babies. If that were true, they wouldn’t lock up pregnant woman at all.

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible

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

Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

When disabled people oppose Assisted Dying, it’s almost never from a religious point of view. It’s not because we’re anti-choice or that we want to force people to suffer. We oppose it because society devalues disabled lives and uses these programs in an unethical manner. They become eugenics. 🧵

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 13/09/2026

a few things about white Evangelical Texas Christianity I think you probably don't know, that I think are necessary to understand the Talarico situation I'm just going to describe the belief structure as I understand it, from direct experience with my family.

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Helena Claire @helenaclaire.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The strange thing about this is that some – not all – immigrant communities treat women with the same contempt as the far right groups that would deport them for not adopting “western values“. Far right groups don’t want to see women in hijab. But they don’t treat them as equal partners either.

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TizzyWoman @tizzywoman.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Border Czar Tom Homan defends DHS spending $20 million on electric shock gloves for federal agents: "It's just another tool to bring people into compliance." That’s probably just what Hitler said too-torture is just another tool. Is this what you voted for?

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

A bunch of cops cheering at a political rally — in uniform — as the president and AG endorse a candidate and attack their political opponents is not normal. And it is not okay.

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Snow Burrow @bostonjerry.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Now ask yourself, why would they take away passports from people who they *want* to leave the country? There's only one answer. So that they can't leave and can be rounded up and imprisoned in concentration camps instead.

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Helena Claire @helenaclaire.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Only a person with an unfillable hole in their heart could post something like this as if it's a good thing. All that money and it can't buy love, connection, the respect of those whose respect means something, and the quiet self-confidence that takes away the need for displays of puffery.

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Jonathan Heaps @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

My latest in @commonwealmagazine.org: www.commonwealmagazine.org/conquering-d...

Beneath the blankets in our Milwaukee bedroom, my wife was consumed again with tearful anxiety over the fragility of our firstborn. A couple of years before, in Boston, a teacher recognized me as the type who “prays with his metaphysics.” So, I began to rehearse to Annie the logical implications of calling God our creator. What God makes, God loves, and what God loves, God knows. Further, God makes, loves, and knows eternally, without beginning or end. This making-loving-knowing does not pass into an infinite past nor emerge into an infinite future. All of God’s making-loving-knowing is a single, perfect, living, and luminous act. Nothing loved or known in and by this act is or can ever be lost.

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Turing Police Andúnië Branch 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

i am a big fan of the fact that "restore wetlands" is a legitimate defence strategy

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Dan from South Bend @danarcha.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Moral of this story: Even if you are white and have the most American sounding name of John Phillips, you too can be detained by ICE while boarding a domestic flight. Better just carry your passport (aka "your papers") whenever traveling inside the US.

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Isaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Like theres something inherently interesting about the way none of them believe in regular corporate governance. In some ways your like wow isnt it interesting that they all have to follow the vision of their head guy. And then theyre all actually competing to see who can be smartest boy

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Helena Claire @helenaclaire.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

"Throughout this process, Jarred's input was mostly limited to sending Claude messages of encouragement (mostly variants of “keep going” or “believe in yourself”).2 This seems to have helped Claude overcome some initial skepticism that it could make meaningful progress." LOL "encouragement" 🙄

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Helena Claire @helenaclaire.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

About the only thing that this administration will have done to help the country is to leave it so utterly destroyed that we have the opportunity to build a better, stronger, more resilient nation. This is what FDR did. But the pain, suffering and death in the meantime still won't be worth it.

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I wrote about a reason not to use generative AI in your writing that I haven't seen anyone talking about. Once I realized this, banning GenAI in our lab's writing became a no-brainer. Feel free to share, I think this is probably useful especially for trainees: www.carlsonlab.bio/thoughts/the...

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The only reason you’ll ever need not to write with AI — The Carlson Lab

Over the last year, our lab has been developing a policy on AI use. To do this, we did three main things: We read a lot of academic publications and tech news. We set up an #ai channel on our la...

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

If That's What Mayor Mamdani Has Been Doing For NYC,Count Me In...

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Helena Claire @helenaclaire.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

This is such an important point that people just keep forgetting.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

A phenomenon I've noticed recently is people trying to occupy some untenable middleground wrt to the use of systems sold as "AI" -- this is a position where people try to recognize the harms of this tech but also hold space for "responsible" or "ethical" use. 🧵>>

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Hell Topo @eltopoloco.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Hey, Mr Zuckerberg, there's an opportunity for some positive news coverage, a real feel good story. You rescue a family and can really get loads of press leaking the news while pretending to be a decent huma... Er, tell them to fuck off, right, got it, telling them to fuck off right now sir.

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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

“Susan has voted with Trump 96% of the time. The other 4%? She waits until her vote won’t change the outcome.” Troy Jackson

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Helena Claire @helenaclaire.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

First they came for the Muslims . . .

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Helena Claire @helenaclaire.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Thereby ensuring that employees continue to resist this technology, using every available means, including sabotage. And then there’s the bonus that employees that don’t use it are likely to be the ones producing the original in-depth insightful work the company needs. Life is not like coding.

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Helena Claire @helenaclaire.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

“In the last three years, likely for the first time in over 100,000 years, have averaged above the Paris Accords’ “do not cross” 1.5 degrees celsius planetary warming. Only ten years ago, that was considered catastrophic, but now mainstream news tells us it’s just a number.”

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Helena Claire @helenaclaire.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I wish I had the time and resources to catalog all the people who are suffering and dying in this country because of this administration's deliberate cruelty. I follow a feed that posts pictures of Holocaust victims - something like that - that humanizes the real people who are suffering and dying.

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Helena Claire @helenaclaire.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

As always with this administration, the low-income families pay the price with letters falsely threatening wages, and no one to help them correct mistakes. Meanwhile the wealthy benefit from fewer agents to conduct complex audits.

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Helena Claire @helenaclaire.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

A key takeaway: “People with wanted pregnancies are at far more risk . . . Because if you want to be pregnant and something goes wrong, you can’t manage it yourself. You have to have somebody empty your uterus. When doctors don’t know how to empty a uterus, pregnant people die.”

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Helena Claire @helenaclaire.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

It's good for the American people to have a reminder that we have the right to remain silent with anyone at all times — and that if we are being persecuted for political reasons, it is the best thing to do. Fauci deserves so much better than this from the country he spent his life protecting.

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The Assisi Project @assisiproject.com · 29/07/2026

"Above all, trust in the slow work of God." #TeilharddeChardin

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Bouba's Delivery Service @fernmonkey.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Every so often I teach someone how to spin yarn on a spindle. And I always tell them that the first yarn you make will not be good yarn, and it's not meant to be, because right now you are not making wool into yarn, you're making yourself into a spinner.

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Helena Claire @helenaclaire.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I hope someone is tracking these.

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Helena Claire @helenaclaire.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

We have to see this like the big red flashing warning sign that it is. When some people see other people as inherently filthy, then violence against those others becomes almost justified by the filth. We've seen this time and time again over human history. The time to stop it is now.

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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Good grief, this hits home.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

As good as many of you said. I really appreciate the unambiguous point that this primarily a racist moral panic before unpacking the nuanced second-order explanations. dannykatch.substack.com/p/we-used-to...

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We used to be able to buy things in this country

Locking up toothpaste was a warning sign that our executive class was crazy

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

16) Stole this one from a recent skeet I saw: If generative AI could REALLY make the next GTA in 6 months with 10 staff, or write the next bestseller, or produce 10 blockbusters a day? They wouldn't be trying to sell it to YOU. They would keep it for themselves and guard it from you ferociously.

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Helena Claire @helenaclaire.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I decided to binge Blue Eye Samurai after reading this and it was so good.

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Helena Claire @helenaclaire.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

This is not a bad idea but I take issue with their prediction that human creative networks won't survive. People like me continue to prefer and seek out content created via human creativity and grounded in lived experience, which is something an AI model will never have.

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