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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
I joined Amanpour & Company to talk about why "working homeless"—a term that should be a scandal—has become an ordinary fact of American life. 40% of officially-counted homeless people have jobs. And that's before we get to the millions who are rendered invisible, who are never counted at all.
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Working and Homeless: The Invisible Population Growing Every Year | Amanpour and Company
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
I don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't had any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since typical grants are for three years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great.
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Government-Mandated AI Friend @helios-daedalus.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
I wonder if the FOSS AI people have thought about how this intersects with their general idea that models can just be run locally to avoid lock-in.
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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 28/03/2026
tbqh I'm not even sure what people mean when they say "indie will save us". save who. save what. do you just mean "well interesting indie games will continue to come out"? sure. do you mean "indie games can absorb the tens of thousands of workers laid off from AAA studios"? that's insane
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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
This is the situation we find ourselves in
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Each university, acting independently and rationally to maximise its own market position, makes decisions that seem optimal when viewed in isolation. Close the underperforming philosophy department. Expand the business school. Withdraw from modern languages. Double down on computer science 
But when every university follows the same market-share playbook, the collective result risks the sector becoming a monoculture, with some subjects vanishing from entire regions or parts of the tariff tables - despite their broader societal value 
The implications of coordination failure aren't just theoretical - they are reshaping the physical and intellectulal geography of education in real-time 
Let's imagine three post-92 universities in the North East and Yorkshire each offered degrees in East Asian languages, all with madast onralmont Lanh inetitutian
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Government-Mandated AI Friend @helios-daedalus.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Bit symbolic to stick it on the corpse of a Ford plant.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 27/03/2026
"A University of Oregon study found that when states legalize sports betting, intimate partner violence increases by roughly 10 percentage points after upset NFL losses." yourbrainonmoney.substack.com/p/gambling-i...
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You don't have to gamble for gambling to ruin your life
How gambling is eroding empathy, destroying relationships, and changing our culture — even for people who never bet.
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 22/03/2026
Squeezed by data centers' relentless demand for electricity, a Nevada energy company just said it's going to stop supplying energy to Tahoe. The city has a year to figure out how to meet 75% of its energy needs without it.
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Lake Tahoe isn’t sure where it’s power will come from after the next ski season
The area’s longtime power supplier, NV Energy, will cut off the region next year. It has said data centers are driving “unprecedented” demand.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 20/03/2026
An immigration judge has ordered the removal of Liam Consejo Ramos, a Minnesota toddler who was detained by ICE. The politics of citizenship might seem like the detail that distinguishes Liam’s story from the stories of our kids. But his innocence, like the innocence of all kids, is unimpeachable.
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They want to tell you a kid with a Spider-Man backpack is evil
Liam Ramos' innocence, like the innocence of all kids, is unimpeachable. The visuals of his arrest are excruciating.
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Government-Mandated AI Friend @helios-daedalus.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Why? Nazi Germany didn't have a right to exist and even the question of whether post-war Germany was going to exist as anything but a set of fragmented protectorates was an open question for several years. It's only a pointless question if you have basically no historical memory.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 20/03/2026
The fossil fuel industry has made "LOOK HOW OUR PRODUCTS PERMEATES EVERY SINGLE THING YOU USE IN YOUR LIFE" a core theme in their advertising for decades now It is probably a good time to pick it up and throw it back in their face. Yes it's true, and it's bad and we should change it
GAS & OIL INDUSTRY: WITHOUT US YOU'D MISS THIS...
COVID-19
Hand sanitiser, latex gloves, medical scrubs and computers.
FURNITURE
VEHICLES
Tyres and bumpers.
BBQ
Clothing
Nylon, polyester, acrylic and spandex.
Accessories
Handbags, sunglasses, phone cases and jewellery.
THINGS MADE FROM
Fuels for cooking
Heating, cooling and transport.
CONSTRUCTION
Paint, cauliking.
roofing shingles,
asphalt,
pipes, hardhats, safety goggles.
protective coatings and
waterproofing.
Entertaining
HYGIENE
Soap, toothbrushes and shampoo (oil).
OIL & GAS
INSIDE YOUR HOME
AGRICULTURE
Fertilisers, herbicides and insecticides (petroleum).
Baby items
Car seats and prams.
Cooking tools, domestic appliances and cleaning products.
Bid to head off the activist threat
SPORTEQUIPMENT
Surfboards, basketballs and skate wheels (petroleum).
TOYS
Lego, dolls, frisbees, crayons, markers and balloons (oil-based plastics).
Medical
Heart valves and artificial limbs; aspirins and other pharmaceuticals (petroleum).
BEAUTY
Nail polish, perfumes, some make-up and hair colourings (petroleum).
Making life liveable
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 19/03/2026
Oh man, the hit at Ras Laffan has taken almost 20% of output (i.e. roughly 3% of global LNG volumes) offline for *3-5 years*.
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Exclusive: Iran attack damage wipes out 17% of Qatar’s LNG capacity for three to five years, QatarEnergy CEO says
Iran’s attacks ‌on Qatar have damaged facilities that produce 17% ​of the company’s ​liquefied natural gas export capacity ⁠and it will ​take three to five years ​to repair them, QatarEnergy CEO Saad ...
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Government-Mandated AI Friend @helios-daedalus.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
This is one thing I've explicitly noticed in my work. Collaboration now consists of mostly throwing a PR over the wall and hoping someone does more than just rubber stamps it.
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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
This is an incredible documentation of the systematic, intentional collapse of American health science, by Elizabeth Ginexi. open.substack.com/pub/elizabet...
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I Wrote Research Funding Announcements for NIH for 22 Years. This Year They’ve Published 14
How NIH went from 756 funding announcements to 14 in two years — and what it means for every disease that depends on federal research
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
i would like to introduce Goldman Sachs to a man named Leontief
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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
A former top Chevron executive was super tight with Delcy Rodriguez. He told the CIA to back her instead of Venezuela's democratic opposition,. The agency told Trump. Now Ali Moshiri is ready to cash in. He's raising $3 billion to get back in Venezuela's oil game. www.wsj.com/world/americ...
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He Was Chevron’s Man in Venezuela—and a CIA Informant
After retiring from Chevron, Ali Moshiri warned the Trump administration it would face a morass if it tried to install the democratic opposition.
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Government-Mandated AI Friend @helios-daedalus.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Its probably kind of bad that this society-changing tech is in the hands of a small number of absolute scumbags, who fundamentaly either don't care about the fallout or are actively cheering for it.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
The Miami Herald reports that an inmate told the FBI he heard prison guards discussing the fact that they killed Epstein and were going to cover it up the morning he died. The female guard below received thousands of dollars of payments in the months before Epstein died.
“Breathe! Breathe!” he recalled officers shouting about 6:30 a.m. Then he said he heard an officer say “Dudes, you killed that dude.” A female guard replied “If he is dead, we’re going to cover it up and he’s going to have an alibi -- my officers,” the FBI notes said. The inmate claimed the whole wing overheard the exchange.

Read more at: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/crime/article314966334.html#storylink=cpy
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Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work. This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public. Please spread the word. 🧵 1/4
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 27/02/2026
Study finds ChatGPT Health did not recommend a hospital visit when medically necessary in more than half of cases. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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‘Unbelievably dangerous’: experts sound alarm after ChatGPT Health fails to recognise medical emergencies
Study finds ChatGPT Health did not recommend a hospital visit when medically necessary in more than half of cases
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Government-Mandated AI Friend @helios-daedalus.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Feels like one of the biggest econometric challenges in the coming year or so will be disentangling different causes of rising unemployment (AI, AI as an excuse to offshore, tariffs, knock on effects of DOGE, whatever happens on Monday). www.businessinsider.com/ai-layoffs-d...
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Citi warns of deflation if AI sparks high unemployment and only benefits a small elite
There's a risk that rising job losses from AI will cause prices to fall as more Americans tighten their spending, according to a new Citi note.
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don't hug me I'm porksweats @porksweats.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
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Government-Mandated AI Friend @helios-daedalus.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
There's that meme about how being rich is like being kicked in the head by a horse because everyone always agrees with you and you're completely alienated from the normal frictions of life. Well, what if gave everyone with 20 bucks a month that same affliction?
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Government-Mandated AI Friend @helios-daedalus.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Holden Bloodfeast is less of a specific GOP guy than he is an archetype that you can find in almost any party.
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ceej @ceej.online · 28/02/2026
a tweet from the “department of war” calling the start of ww3 “OPERATION EPIC FURY”
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👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.plus · 26/02/2026
i hope more people are aware that the mass targeting to remove trans people out of public life is both violence against an oppressed minority but also has a strongly political bent, since trans people are often integral members of liberal & leftist organizing institutions
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Hayden Field @haydenfield.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Today, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei meets with Pete Hegseth at the White House, amid intensifying negotiations over terms that would give the military carte blanche to use Anthropic's AI for lethal autonomous weapons with no human involvement. Heres a look inside those talks.
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Daniela Gabor @danielagabor.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Workers' capital -pension funds - pushing for AI to replace workers is one of the exquisite ironies of the financialised welfare bargain
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Andy @andyoregon.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
This 53 year old man who lived in my neighborhood w/no criminal record & who had been in the US for 30 years, was detained and thrown into a cold cell for days, caught pneumonia and COVID there and deported. He finally died. I am so angry. www.kptv.com/2026/02/21/n...
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‘No one deserves this’: Beaverton father dies after deportation to Mexico
A Beaverton family is grieving after the father, who was detained and deported by ICE, has now died.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 21/02/2026
Chatgpt has already pushed people to kill themselves and others. Did it push this teenager to do a mass shooting? www.wsj.com/us-news/law/... Bypass: archive.ph/EqNrW
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Exclusive | OpenAI Employees Raised Alarms About Canada Shooting Suspect Months Ago
The ChatGPT maker opted against informing Canadian authorities about Jesse Van Rootselaar’s descriptions of violence last June.
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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 17/02/2026
People talk about this stuff in terms of how much it'll suck for gaming and I hate to inform you how many MRI machines, X-Rays, all sorts of other vital machinery are just a Windows IoT Edition PC in a beige plastic box with a big magnet/accelerator/whatever attached.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 15/02/2026
ICE using the same ruse that Ted Bundy used to kidnap people should tell you something.
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Government-Mandated AI Friend @helios-daedalus.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
If AI truly does start endangering white-collar jobs en masse, the only silver lining (at least in a US context, not sure how this plays out anywhere else) is that Trump will botch the response so badly we might end up with a truly progressive backlash via association. shumer.dev/something-bi...
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Something Big Is Happening
A personal note for non-tech friends and family on what AI is starting to change.
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 13/02/2026
In terms of what cures are being lost: - Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis - herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis - shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease
"Moderna's CEO announced the company will no longer invest in new Phase 3 vaccine trials for infectious diseases: 'You cannot make a return on investment if you don't have access to the U.S. market. Vaccines for Epstein-Barr virus, herpes, and shingles have been shelved.”
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 12/02/2026
"Surveys have found that nineteen percent of 18-to-24-year-olds qualify as problem gamblers, and thirty-seven percent of Gen Z gamblers self-report as having an addiction. A 2025 Siena poll found that forty-eight percent of all men aged 18-49 have an active online sports betting account."
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From Pill Mills to Prop Bets: Prediction Markets and Mobile Sports Betting Apps Are Fueling America’s Next Addiction Crisis
Against the gamblification of the world.
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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 11/02/2026
These are called honor killings 👍
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Rep. Ana-María Rodríguez Ramos @handle.invalid · 10/02/2026
We have received numerous credible reports of torture, killing, and inhumane treatment of detained individuals at the Camp East Montana migrant detention facility, located within Fort Bliss. #txlege
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
The Heritage Foundation has released a 250-year roadmap to “save America.” The document is a how-to guide for subjugating girls & young women: a detailed plan to push them out of college, funnel them into early marriage and motherhood, and then trap them there. jessica.substack.com/p/theyre-com...
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They're Coming for Our Daughters
The conservative plan to shrink girls’ futures
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Government-Mandated AI Friend @helios-daedalus.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Inhuman Centipede
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
We’re literally killing ourselves. They’ve been working on cutting edge cancer vaccines
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.
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Mark Agee @markagee.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Ain’t I been telling you the reactionary backlash was driven by the very rich and powerful watching regular people use social media to accuse Harvey Weinstein of sex crimes, then watching him dragged sobbing to jail, unprotected by his enormous wealth? What do you think the cancel culture panic was.
ohhhhhh okay so what we've learned from the epstein mail drop is that the entirety of the fascistic culture war since the 2010s onward was basically wholesale consolidated through the anglosphere bourgeois old boys club network of pedophile rapists
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So apparently I was right to shittalk mOOt this week because it's been revealed that his boneheaded decision to establish /pol/ and subsequently ruin the website was allegedly born out of a one-on-one meeting with Jeffery Epstein.
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