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Masaar @masaar.net · 29/09/2026
The statement calls for confidential reporting, swift responses to harm, and age verification that protects privacy and access to services. It also calls for children’s participation, independent oversight and regular review. Read the statement: masaar.net/en/masaar-an...
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Masaar and EIPR Call for Clear Public Safeguards to Protect Children Online and Uphold Their Rights
Masaar and EIPR Call for Clear Public Safeguards to Protect Children Online and Uphold Their Rights
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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.
Sorry, I can’t type that.
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Carissa Véliz @carissaveliz.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Many people ask me (and others) what career to have to have a job in the future. It's the wrong way to go about it. If you're the best at what you do, you'll likely be fine. Be the Marcel Marceau of your loved profession. time.com/partner-cont...
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Why Leaders Should Ignore Predictions About AI
Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news.
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Désirée Zamorano @ladeziree.latinsky.app · 24/07/2026
Absolutely required reading
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 30/07/2026
"As Japanese financial newspaper Nikkei Asia found in a recent investigation, just five US tech giants — Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle — are hiding an estimated $1.65 trillion in debt that doesn’t appear on balance sheets. futurism.com/artificial-i...
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AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt
AI companies are pouring tens of billions of dollars into enormous data centers. They're being built on top of a mountain of hidden debt.
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Natee (they/them) @himmapaan.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I didn't _quite_ paint every individual hair/scale on the wings, but I as good as did. 😮‍💨
A closer crop of the butterfly in the above post. Holy intricate work, Batman!
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LibraryThing @librarything.com · 22/06/2026
Today is the birthday of African American science fiction author #OctaviaEButler. The winner of numerous Hugo and Nebula Awards, she was the first science fiction author to receive a MacArthur Fellowship. #💙📚 #Booksky Have you read her work? www.librarything.com/author/butle...
A photograph of Octavia E. Butler.
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Schera Wyss 💀 SLUG HUMAN @scherawyss.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
This might be one of the most insane scandals in game history When Pokemon Go players scan PokeStops, theyve been unknowingly building a detailed visual model of the world which is being sold to a military contractor to build a no-GPS positioning for the new generation of unmanned killing machines
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Molly White @molly.wiki · 08/06/2026
I've been running Follow the Crypto since 2024. Today I'm relaunching it as Tech Influence Watch, expanded to cover AI political spending alongside crypto. They’ve spent more than $400 million this election cycle, and now you can follow it in close to real time. influence.citationneeded.news
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Tech Influence Watch
Tracking cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence industry influence on 2026 elections in the United States.
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Dancer (The) @dancerv.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Really speaking, that should be the baseline expectation.
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Dr David S Anderson @dsaarchaeology.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
As an anthropologist, I endorse this message!
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 07/05/2026
After over four years of development, apkeep’s version 1.0.0 signifies the project as a stable tool in the toolbox researchers use to download and analyze Android apps. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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Milestone 1.0.0 Release of APK Downloader `apkeep` Powers Research on
Last week, we released apkeep version 1.0.0, the latest edition of our command-line Android package downloading software. Rather than indicating major changes for the project, this milestone instead
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Emelia @thisismissem.social · 04/05/2026
Okay so – with a big caveat that we still need to write a lot more documentation – between the @roost.tools team, @dcallies.bsky.social and myself we've managed to ship a new documentation site for ThreatExchange / HMA: facebook.github.io/ThreatExchan...
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ThreatExchange
Trust & Safety tools for working together to fight digital harms.
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Carissa Véliz @carissaveliz.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Being on the TED stage has been one of the biggest thrills of my life. My TED talk is live! Please share widely! Predictions can be weapons of power, and we are being much too naive about them, from prediction markets to AI. #Prophecy www.ted.com/talks/cariss...
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Beware the power of prediction
What do the story of Oedipus and your insurance premiums have in common? They are both driven by self-fulfilling prophecies. Philosopher and TED Fellow Carissa Véliz traces the hidden power of predict...
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IPFS @ipfs.tech · 20/04/2026
Manifest-declared protocol handlers just landed (behind a flag) in Chrome 146 🎉 This is how ipfs:// or atproto:// can become first-class citizens of the browser! The web that's coming is built on keys, hashes, and verifiable data. Browsers need to meet it there. ipfsfoundation.org/protocol-han...
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Protocol Handler Registration in Chrome 146 and the Browser as OS
Manifest-declared protocol handlers in Chrome 146? The web that's coming is built on keys, hashes, and verifiable data. Browsers need to meet it there.
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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 09/04/2026
“Even more troublingly, other researchers say, the fake papers were then cited in peer-reviewed literature. Osmanovic Thunström says this suggests that some researchers are relying on AI-generated references without reading the underlying papers.”
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 06/04/2026
Being Black in America is wild because there’s always a white person willing to volunteer their services to act as a supervisor.
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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
For all the folk using AI to automate away everything, including things you might actually enjoy doing yourself if you gave yourself the chance…please don't forget the Peter Principle. (Hat-tip to the amazing @sketchplanations.bsky.social)
Sketchplanations sketch of the Peter Principle - "Employees rise (get promoted) to their level of incompetence".
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No Starch Press @nostarchpress.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
you could keep googling “why does my cron job not work” OR you could get 15 Linux books for $60 and become the person with answers Linux, The Good Stuff on @humblebundle.com: www.humblebundle.com/books/linux-go… Proceeds benefit @eff.org
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Robert Stribley @stribs.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Seen just now in Tacoma
Wheat paste by railroad tracks reading “Palantir is watching you”
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ændra. @aendra.com · 31/03/2026
The forced global adoption of puritanistic American cultural norms vis sexuality and nudity via app store/payment processor rules is one of the least-discussed free speech issues of the last decade and this lack of attention is going to hurt online expression so much in the years to come.
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Your fave's fave @actually.roiskinda.cool · 31/03/2026
I think I was 19 when I started studying US history for real and learned about the many cruelties the state visited upon people. Reading about how folks had picnics around burned and hung bodies and how people were murdered for knowing how to ready was hard, but necessary. It gave me perspective
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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
This is a lovely short video from the Royal Society on why soil is one of the most amazing things on Earth: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmJU... Beautifully done. And soil is our topic for this week's Rare Earth, so lots more on the joy, importance & surprises of soil will be coming soon. 🪱🌱🍄
Stylised picture of fungi in soil sharing nutrients
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 28/03/2026
Over the years, the same tools that were once celebrated as tools of dissent have become instruments for tracking, harassing, and prosecuting dissenters. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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Digital Hopes, Real Power: Reflecting on the Legacy of the Arab Spring
A new generation of protesters, raised on social media and often fluent in the tools of digital dissent, has taken to the streets in recent months and years. This is the first installment of a blog
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Yael's post demonstrates something about digital privacy/security that I think a lot of people miss: there is no right answer, just a series of trade-offs. And every person has to make their own decisions avout which trade-offs are worthwhile. blog.yaelwrites.com/options-for-...
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Options for Phones at Protests
Simply showing up to a protest leaves you susceptible to all sorts of surveillance, including cameras, drones, facial recognition, and more. There's not always a lot you can do about pernicious street...
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Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Omg??????? www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/b...
Empire of AI wins the 2025 National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction
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VoidZero @voidzero.dev · 24/03/2026
Vite's new plugin registry is live! 🎉 Browse @vite.dev, @rolldown.rs, and Rollup plugins from the teams and the community. Filter by version compatibility to find plugins that work with your setup. And if you are a maintainer, you can add your plugin easily too registry.vite.dev
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Vite Plugin Registry | Discover plugins for your build tools
Discover plugins for Vite, Rolldown, and Rollup
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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 20/03/2026
It's not yet a formal proposal and it's still some uncertainly months away, but
Wade Minter asks "Does the Space concept open up the architecture for private posts on the network?"

Daniel repolies "yup!"
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
I talked with @prisonculture.bsky.social, Alison Macrina, and Katie Clark about libraries as public infrastructure, contested political terrain, and spaces of possibility—and about what it means to fight for them in this fascistic moment.
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Why Libraries Matter in a Fascist Moment
“If we lose this as a public good and as a free public service, we will have lost everything,” says Mariame Kaba.
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Carissa Véliz @carissaveliz.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Thrilled to be speaking about #Prophecy at the TED2026 conference in Vancouver — check it out! #TED #authors Join me!: tedtalks.social/carissav%C3%...
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Laurens @laurenshof.online · 18/03/2026
Paul's article prompted a long one from me: What is the purpose of protocols? connectedplaces.online/the-purpose-...
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The Purpose of Protocols
Every open social protocol generates shared resources, but none has produced a governance framework adequate to those resources. So who fills that vacuum?
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Your fave's fave @actually.roiskinda.cool · 18/03/2026
I bust out laughing because this is so absurdly racist. Cops attacked Fro, but the lawyer is trying to get him to sympathize with the cops who robbed him. The US is such a ridiculously nonsensical place.
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Information is Beautiful @infobeautiful.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Beautiful hand-drawn map of UK in Lord of the Rings / Tolkien style by Reddit user: u/NACHODYNAMYTE www.reddit.com/r/lotr/comme...
This is a highly detailed, hand-drawn style physical map titled “PHYSICAL MAP OF GREAT BRITAIN,” rendered in black ink with red typography and geographic labels on an off-white background. It's in the style of JRR Tolkien's maps from Lord of the Rings. It depicts the British Isles—including England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, the Isle of Man, and numerous smaller islands—with topographic shading indicating mountains, hills, and lowlands (e.g., Grampian Mountains, Southern Uplands, Lake District, Pennines). Major bodies of water are labeled in red: Atlantic Ocean, Celtic Sea, Irish Sea, North Sea, English Channel, Bristol Channel, and St. George’s Channel. Key regions and features are annotated in red serif font, such as “SCOTLAND,” “ENGLAND,” “WALES,” “IRELAND,” “NORTHERN ISLES,” “SHETLAND ISLANDS,” and “ORKNEY ISLANDS.” A small inset in the upper right shows the Northern Isles in greater detail. A compass rose appears in the upper left, and a heraldic lion-and-unicorn emblem sits above the title at the bottom left. The map evokes a vintage or fantasy cartographic aesthetic, resembling historical atlases or maps from fictional worlds, though it accurately represents real geography. No modern political boundaries are shown—only physical features and traditional regional names.
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Christine Lemmer-Webber @dustyweb.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Joyce Ng has gone missing. She is an open source and open hardware advocate and fights peacefully against the rise of Christian right-wing nationalism. There is reason to fear she has been apprehended by authorities: social.coop/@cwebber/116...
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Christine Lemmer-Webber (@cwebber@social.coop)
Kind and cherished FOSS and computing freedom advocate @sleepyowl@chaos.social (Joyce Ng) has gone missing and there is reason to fear she may have been apprehended by authorities, possibly likely eve...
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Ebz @ebzlll.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
So, it’s still fuck all of y’all that voted for him. I don’t care about your new feelings and your new life epiphanies or new frontal lobe developments. You saying this is not what you voted for; you absolutely did. All of this shit was public information. You still let him sit in office today.
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David Toews @davetoews.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Heading into conference abstract / presentation season, I 100% recommend Kathryn Langin's (@kangin.bsky.social) "Tell me a story! A plea for more compelling conference presentations". It's short, sweet, and not just for ornithologists. I can get behind every word! 🔒 academic.oup.com/condor/artic...
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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
All this. Yes.
Mohamed
@MohamedSkandari
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Reading books is so profound because it denies you the ability to speak when confronted with an idea. You must listen. It isn't a conversation. Sometimes it shouldn't be a conversation.
Sometimes we should just listen.
& st listen.
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LaurieWired @lauriewired.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
In case you missed my RE//verse keynote about compilers and reverse engineering, it's now available online!
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ɪᴍᴍᴀɴᴜᴇʟ ᴋᴜɴᴛ @soberthots.blacksky.app · 15/03/2026
The world has always been a “dystopia”, people are just now noticing because it’s affecting them directly and their privilege blinders are coming off.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 15/03/2026
Using secure messaging services for all communications and considering what content you post on social media are just two easy ways to build an online space that feels as free and safe as speaking with those closest to us in the offline world. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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Building a Community Privacy Plan
Everyone's security plans and situations will always be different, which is why we often say that security and privacy are a state of mind, not a purchase. But the first step is always taking a look
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Your fave's fave @actually.roiskinda.cool · 15/03/2026
Again. White people aren't ignorant, being taken advantage or being naive. They are making decisions they know will result in death and destruction.
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DilDog 🅅 @dildog.l0pht.com · 13/03/2026
if you arent microscrolling you're doing dopamine wrong open your favorite social app and glance briefly at it put your finger on the screen and move it just a few pixels that's all now go outside and do something completely different
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Patrick DeWind @dewind.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
"There are few things that many engineers I've worked with hate more than having to maintain someone else's shitty code." - Meredith Whittaker
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LaurieWired @lauriewired.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
16807 is a very special number in Computer Science.

 You can find it in the Playstation 5 (freebsd 11), almost every Mac Classic game, and even the C++11 standard!
 Give it the right prime number, you can produce an evenly distributed sequence for over 2 BILLION values.
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