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Philip Montoro @pmontoro.bsky.social · 7h

What should've been John Prine's 80th birthday arrives on Saturday. The empathy and curiosity he showed his fellow humans makes him seem like an alien in today's America, but @annie-howard.bsky.social wrote about how we might reconnect to those lessons. chicagoreader.com/music/music-...

chicagoreader.com

America still needs John Prine - Chicago Reader

On what should’ve been his 80th birthday, beloved songwriter John Prine offers enduring lessons about the value of empathy and curiosity.

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 22h

Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf

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Thomas Spooks 🎃👻💀 @thomasfuchs.at · 20h

Writing code hasn’t been the bottleneck in software production since the 1980s; RAD, IDEs, OOP, and off-shoring made code (in corporations) a relatively cheap quasi-commodity long ago. The bottleneck has always been making software that’s actually useful.

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 23h

Leftists are right to be skeptical of AI hype. The technology has pushed advances in the sciences and could even help solve the climate crisis. But it is controlled by a small section of the tech elite who have little interest in the public good.

jacobin.com

Could AI Fix Climate Change? Probably Not Under Capitalism.

In an interview with Ezra Klein, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang floated the possibility that AI might offer a solution to the climate crisis. That would require taking AI under public control.

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 07/10/2026

there's a lot going on right now, but the ability to buy elections in order to stay out of prison is on the ballot whether you realize it or not

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TinyCat by LibraryThing @librarycat.org · 11/03/2026

TinyCat may surprise you! Come see what it can do at our webinar, Wednesdays at 1:00pm (EST). You'll get a comprehensive tour and an opportunity to ask questions live. Zoom link: us06web.zoom.us/j/85882643642 #BookSky #libraries #💙📚

gray cat with green eyes looking up in surprise

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 01/10/2026

From our friends at Fansplaining: Pokémon fangames evolve beyond their origins aftermath.site/pokemon-fangam...

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Darío @dariosamo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I still see a lot of confusion about what decompilation, recompilation and ports are and what level of effort is involved in each type of project. It's important that people understand the difference, as recompilation took a drastically different meaning that when it was originally introduced.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Outside the pandemic, U.S. information-sector employment is now at its lowest level in more than a decade. BLS data shows 2.739M jobs in September, down ~12% from the 2022 peak. The entire post-pandemic hiring boom has now been erased. I expected AI to cause Big Tech to shrink but not all tech. 😞

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 28/07/2026

Calling JD Vance Jared Cushioner

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Karla Monterroso @karlaliliana.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It is really so wild to see folks whose whole experience of conflict is getting powerful institutions to resolve friction for them.

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hailey @hailey.at · 06/10/2026

much anti-LLM arguing here is basically all the US users being mad at American capitalism but instead of yelling about American capitalism they yell about some other Glonzo they have made up in their head instead. most M-Ls here wouldn't know the best shot they've had if it slapped them in the face.

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 05/10/2026

it is interesting that I can't find any mainstream media coverage of Altman's sister Annie going viral on social media over the weekend for uploading footage of the first hour of her deposition in her lawsuit against him (one of two) in which she is alleging years of CSA

theguardian.com

Accept ‘bad things’ in return for benefits of AI, says Sam Altman

Boss of OpenAI calls for a regulatory light touch because of the ‘good stuff’ the technology can deliver

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Leftist Gamer Memes @leftistgamermemes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

🙅‍♀️🚓🏥👨‍⚕️

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Derek Yu @mossmouth.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

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Leena 🌵 @leena.reuben.games · 04/10/2026

it takes a lot to pull a “may god have mercy on us all” out of me (given i’m not religious) but looking at these pictures it feels like the only honest response i could have

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 03/10/2026

Meta has enabled Muse to build extensive and ever-growing profiles on the orbit of people in a user’s life. Based on user input but also “publicly available information.” Whether that means a web search, Facebook’s own extensive data, or buying data broker info…we don’t know? And we can’t opt out.

wired.com

Muse Creates Detailed Profiles of All Your Friends and Family

Millions have downloaded Meta’s AI agent Muse. But getting it to do your bidding comes with privacy costs.

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Maya Dukmasova @mdoukmas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We're out here delivering the @injusticewatch.org guide around Cook County all week! Map of all the locations coming soon! #CheckYourJudges

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Nick Ulivieri @nuphoto.com · 02/10/2026

Took a (very) rainy walk through the Loop tonight. I was absolutely soaked, but my camera stayed dry enough.

The pavement in Chicago is wet from a day-long rain. Street and traffic lights reflect on the stored in vivid colors. In the foreground, a person with an umbrella is an out-of-focus silhouette

Calder's Flaming - an orange, abstract metal sculpture in Chicago stands in a wet, reflective plaza. The sculpture is reflected in the rain coating the plaza's stone pavers in the evening with buildings in the background

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19thnews @19thnews.org · 01/10/2026

The 988 hotline's LGBTQ+ youth services have been returned over a year after the Trump administration shut it down. Advocates say this is a crucial step to address a growing mental health crisis among LGBTQ+ youth. bit.ly/3TAna4Y

Colorful artwork showing two hands holding phones, with a rainbow emerging from the screens. Text reads: "A critical suicide prevention hotline for LGBTQ+ youth is back. LGBTQ+ young people can once again press 3 after calling 988 to be connected with specially trained counselors."

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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Final call: join us in Chicago this Saturday Oct. 3, for a conversation between our Politics Editor @dannypostel.bsky.social and historians Peter Cole and Elizabeth Todd-Breland about the contentious politics of Chicago’s public monuments. REGISTER HERE: f.mtr.cool/t36ti7nvwn

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Tim Gaedke @timgaedke.com · 26/09/2026

talent is a lie

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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 26/09/2026

after they are finished with trans people, and disabled people, and autistic people, they'll come for adhd people, and go right on through the list. fascism is a fire that cannot be quenched. once everyone is a cishet white male, they'll start burning people for being short, or having webbed toes.

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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Forget grandiose talk of curing cancer - this is what AI is actually doing to healthcare. In the words of one cardiologist: “it’s bots fighting bots, agents fighting agents, a horrible dystopic future nobody wants to live in.”

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring

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Iron Ring - Wikipedia

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Benn Jordan @bennjordan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It would've been easy to bash Flock in Senate today, but the reality is that this crisis would've not happened had there been any form of regulation or guard rails. So, let's demand them. And let's vote with the same ferocity we post with.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 24/09/2026

Just when I think I can’t hate OpenAI and Sam Altman any more, new details come out about how ChatGPT helped a shooter plan one of the worst mass shootings in Canadian history in Tumbler Ridge, BC. OpenAI made an explicit decision not to report the user to authorities.

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ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals

OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.

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Chris Bratt @chrisbratt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

In recent years, the media has quietly begun to change the way in which it writes about Bobby Kotick, the former CEO of Activision Blizzard. PMG investigates how Kotick used the threat of defamation to reshape his legacy in the games business, one article at a time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKwp...

youtube.com

Inside Bobby Kotick's Campaign Against the Press

YouTube video by People Make Games

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33rd Ward Working Families @33rdwardworking.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Do you like Bikes and Socialism? Then join the 7th Annual Bike With Rossana for a morning of biking around our ward with your neighbors! We’ll check out some of the improvements we’ve made to the ward, make a stop for Italian ice, and end with a cookout! RSVP at: bit.ly/BikeWithRossana2026

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A proposal which would have allowed Turnitin to use student submissions to train AI models has sparked outrage from student leaders

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Students demand reassurance after Turnitin U‑turn on AI‑training plan

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026

Just go to therapy, bro.

DAVID JIANG, COFOUNDER and CEO of smart glasses company Viture, tells me about how he used to yell at his kid.

His 10-year-old son played tennis. During tournaments, Jiang says he had a habit of shouting and criticizing his son’s mistakes as he played. He wanted to apply pressure to make him succeed—it was the way he’d been taught to raise kids, after all. It made sense.

But then, unprompted, his smart glasses sent him a message. The AI assistant in his company’s newest wearable had picked up on what he was doing, recognized that his behavior wasn’t helpful, and messaged him about what he should do differently. Stop shouting. Stop criticizing. Just be there, be present, and show that you support your son. That worked, Jiang says, and being called out like that has supposedly made him a better father and improved the relationship with his kid, all thanks to his yet-to-be-released Vonder AI glasses.

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Black Guy Does Sociology @blackmanbeyond.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

In grad school I learned you can't really empower other people, you can just try to create a more empowering environment. There aren't "voiceless people", just people who rarely get the mic. Etc.

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Evan Simko-Bednarski @simko-bednarski.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

An Amtrak work crew clipped the new fiber optic cable the feds put in last year, linking air traffic control systems in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Flights were grounded for much of the day.

nydailynews.com

Amtrak work crews cut fiber optic cable, grounding flights across NYC

As of Monday afternoon, Newark International Airport, Kennedy International Airport and Teterboro Airport remained grounded.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I was deputy M.E. at the WSJ when Murdoch took over, with a similar “editorial independence board.” Within 4 months, our top editor was gone, replaced by a loyal Murdoch deputy. That board raised a quivering objection, but the deed was done. If the Ellisons own CNN, they’ll do whatever they want.

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Sam Barlow 🔥 @mrsambarlow.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I feel like a part of the rush to adopt AI was out of a desire to move on so quickly from blockchain and metaverse so we'd forget how much they faceplanted...

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 21/09/2026

FAFO aside, his shock is a great distillation of how whiteness as a social construct is built around shattering communal understanding of our interconnected human ecosystem in favor of a mythical individualism How whiteness leaves its adherents defenseless against our shared oppressors: capitalists

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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Drudgery usually refers to the invisible labor that undergirds the visible work products that are rewarded in the workplace

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