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Holly Potier

@hfpotier.bsky.social
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 08/10/2026
The moral position of tech companies seems to be "we get to do whatever we want to people whether or not they consent, but they can't hold us accountable for anything we do."
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 08/10/2026
Will Claude be disciplined when it hacks into the power grid and turns off electricity for half the country? Will Claude get a timeout when it builds a nuclear weapon?
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Dexerto @dexerto.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Here's how to check what it thinks about you
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Amazon users discover bizarre “About You” page detailing their interests: How to check yours - Dexerto
Amazon users have discovered an “About You” page that reveals some of the surprisingly specific assumptions the company has made about them.
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Silly B Man @lawnerd.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Nobody could have known that stove was hot, I feel betrayed
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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I didn’t even know how to react to that. For one thing, it was a terrible idea.
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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Very interesting. Also, I note my usual point, which is that the police raid the wrong houses so enthusiastically and so often there's a substantial body of cases on this problem.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This is not what slop refers to. I'm not being purely academic about this. The conflation does matter. Because this is a type of conglation that people do to make any reasonable critique of "A.I." seem overwrought. "Oh they said the same thing about the internet!" And it is not true.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 06/09/2026
Then they complain about low test scores and falling behind on math and reading
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 04/09/2026
Least surprising reveal ever: The juror refusing to apply the reasonable doubt standard in Lindsey Clancy’s trial is a man www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...
screenshot from The Washington Post quoting Lindsey Clancy’s attorney, Kevin Reddington, where he says that the sole holdout juror is a man. Previous reports said the Jury was 11 to one on reaching a verdict: 

Reddington had attempted for a second day to argue that the juror is in violation of the law.

"When you have a situation where you have not one but two notes, that clearly indicates that this individual has acknowledged doubt, but refuses to apply it to the verdict, **he is — as the law states - he is not being honest with you at the sidebar**, I would go so far as to reluctantly say that the individual has made a false statement under oath to this court," Reddington said.

On Thursday, a jury foreperson sent a note to the judge indicating that a juror had acknowledged doubt in the case but was refusing to apply it to the verdict. The note was the first public indication that the jury, which has twice told Sullivan that they are unable to reach consensus, is being held up by a lone juror.
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Politico @politico.com · 03/09/2026
Leon Black defies House Oversight Committee in Epstein investigation
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Leon Black defies House Oversight Committee in Epstein investigation
Committee leaders could pursue contempt proceedings against the billionaire investor.
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Cathy Gellis @cathygellis.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This is interesting. Judge deciding whether to enjoin new USPS ballot mailing rule is challenging Texas's naked insistence it can comply. Judge: Oh? It's enough of a nightmare to upload party invites to a mailing site, and you think you're easily going to be able to perfectly upload ballot rolls?
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Just leave them there
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 31/08/2026
If you’re a Google Map user in the US, you’ll now see the name “Lake America” instead of “Lake Ontario,” just days after Trump’s order renaming the body of water. Online reactions of outrage are widespread, but Google has long demonstrated little interest in opposing the Trump administration.
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Google's obedience to Trump's "Lake America" order follows a depressing pattern.
The tech giant renamed Lake Ontario for American eyes only—and hedged everywhere else.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/08/2026
let him build the ballroom and then the next president can sell tickets to a public demolition or live stream a drone strike on the facility
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
When all you cool kids are done fighting about The Odyssey, can someone please explain this strange Little House on the Prairie reboot??
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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
It's Enrons all the way down.
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
going to throw a minor discourse bomb: "perform patriarchal masculinity economically and sexually" is also a thing and a lot of people seem pretty into the concept of "daddy"
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
more serious Odyssey opinion: leaning into the religious significance of the Trojan horse strategy (and the hospitality as central to civilization theme) was a good choice by Nolan and friends artistically and politically. strongest condemnation of our present era I'd expect from a mass market film
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Fascism is here. If you’re not alarmed you’re not paying attention. “Left-wing political terrorism” will mean those who oppose the regime — while actual right-wing extremism is allowed to grow and thrive. We are very far off the cliff, folks.
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Sean Marshall @seanyyz.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Why I’m a fan of the Oxford comma.
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Sylvia Plath, a New York vigilante and Shah of Iran featured in latest historical fiction
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Cheri Jacobus @cherijacobus.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
If you're following "marching orders" you are not a journalist. In fact, you're the enemy of journalism. cc: Jake Tapper.
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Why don't most Europeans have air conditioning? Dumb? Woke? No - WE DID NOT NEED IT UNTIL FOSSIL FUEL BURNING CAUSED THE CLIMATE CRISIS More info 👇 www.carbonbrief.org/eight-facts-...
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Eight facts about air conditioning amid an overheated global debate - Carbon Brief
Carbon Brief explains why AC rates in parts of Europe are relatively low and clarifies some of the misleading claims about the technology.
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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
"That's what I do, not what I am." I know a lot of library workers who need to hear this. 📚
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Shoe-per Intelligence @shoe.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
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Sesame Street The Count
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Some lovely details in this obit of Sam Neill, including that in that immortal, iconic shot of him seeing a living dino for the first time in Jurassic Park, he was looking at a piece of paper with an X on it. wapo.st/4gFnqZH
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Sam Neill, versatile actor who starred in ‘Jurassic Park,’ dies at 78
The New Zealander drew international acclaim for roles as gruff loners and unhinged villains. He was best known for playing paleontologist Alan Grant.
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AskAubry 🦝 🐆 @ask-aubry.com · 03/07/2026
Dude really watched a movie about a woman weeping tears of horror while trapped inside her own mind, "Wow, what a beautiful journey of self-discovery for her!" Reframing literal psychological and physical violation as "liberating her inner desires" is some Olympic level incel gymnastics.
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People are completely misinterpreting this. Nikki wasn't "trapped" by a spell, the movie explicitly shows that the Willow just unmasked her true internal desires. Bear didn't force anything on her, he just gave her the permission to stop pretending to be the good girl. If you think she's a helpless victim here, you completely missed the entire psychological point of the third act

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
RIP
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Elizabeth Kolbert @elizkolbert.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Heat records are getting broken. Electricity prices are soaring. The administration's response? Let's gut energy efficiency rules for appliances.
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Trump administration moves to gut energy efficiency rules for home appliances
The Energy Department wants to permanently restrict longstanding efficiency mandates, calling them a “scam.”
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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 03/07/2026
I'm liking this Leo guy. Not enough to go back to the Church, and he's far from perfect in a number of ways significant to me, but still.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
We all have a chance to do something very funny here
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
I know it's Fox but there's no way broadcasting all these long pans over completely empty fields is no a choice
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
The other day I noted the only way Trump would keep paying Event Strategies to put together humiliating public events is if it were a vehicle for corruption. Today, Natural Resource Dems released a report substantiating that corruption. emptywheel.net/2026/06/29/t...
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Trump Has Made the National Mall a Tribute to His Squalid Corruption - emptywheel
Event Strategies, which put on the disastrous Great American State Fair, knows how to put on professional presentations. But since they started getting no-bid contract after no-bid contract, they simp...
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
The combination of heat and humidity, a lack of adequate hydration, and the deteriorated air quality due to the fireworks themselves is likely to kill someone.
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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Apple is passing the cost of “Apple Intelligence” onto its customers.
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Jenna Beet @jennabeet.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Hey Roberts can eat shit
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Why is the message today not “thank god it was preserved, but it was by a hair and should never ever be this close. Court reform. Court reform. Court reform.”
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@AuthorMsBev @authormsbev.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Youngins freaking out about Kennedy Ryan being a pen name. They’ll probably lose their entire minds when they find out some authors use more than one. Somebody give these folks something to do. Please!!
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/06/2026
fundamentally, Alito and Thomas believe that the 14th Amendment established a hierarchy of citizenship or allowed the elected branches to do so. but that is totally ass backwards! it was explicitly written to *preclude* any hierarchy of citizenship. it is right there in the text!
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/06/2026
actually a third thing: alito quite literally sounds like the unreconstructed opponents of the 14th amendment, right down to the notion that his citizenship is degraded by the fact that it is equal with that of someone from a lower station than him.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/06/2026
two things. first, always an irony that alito recapitulates the exact same arguments made against his immigrant forbearers. second, if this is all the 14th amendment did it would not have repudiated dred scott
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
politics today feels like the right has hit us with a combo of pearl harbor and 9/11 over the last decades and the democrats are still quibbling over what the dictionary definition of war is
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 30/06/2026
Everyone should be extremely concerned that birthright citizenship was 5-4 and not unanimous.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
5-4? Jesus.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Feel like we blew past the SCOTUS decision about campaign finance, but it’s a BAD one from EVERY direction:
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Based on the near-instant speed of the removal, it seemed clear AI was in control of the heavy handed censorship on the platform. I was disturbed by the experience ... talkingpointsmemo.com/the-weekende...
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TikTok Doesn’t Want Us To Talk About the News
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Micah @rincewind.run · 28/06/2026
this child is literally a wizard, this is incredible
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
as the world's biggest hater of summer, i believe a/c is one of mankind's greatest creations.
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Bill Nye's Enthusiastic Science Exclamation
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