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Happy first day of swing! The new school street gate for City-As school is officially installed on Clarkson St. Modeled after similar designs in Paris, this new infrastructure creates safe, open spaces for students. Let's bring these to schools across NY!

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HK Dunston @hkdunston.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Surge: an ode to Sinead O’Connor choreographed by Sonya Tayeh at the Joyce theatre…. If like me at age 14 you bought the lion and the cobra for your first ever music purchase and then listened to it like an oracle for the next few lonely years prepare to have your heart ripped from your chest

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Hilary Mason @hilarymason.com · 16/09/2026

If we held people personally and criminally liable for the "autonomous" actions of the AI systems they create and deploy, I bet the risky behavior would evaporate overnight.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

If a generative AI CEO is telling you something, take it with a grain of salt the size of an iceberg. So if they want regulation now, it is more likely something to do with finances than an immediate existential threat. These dipshits do not care about existential threats other than going bankrupt.

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

sorry, but torturing the omelas kid is just a smart move, polling-wise. i personally wish there wasn't a kid in the omelas hole--of course i do!--but let's not get distracted by purity tests, here.

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HK Dunston @hkdunston.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Timeline cleanse: let this very smart tiny librarian help you pick out a cosy book to read. She has many good suggestions

Small black and white cat smiling at the viewer from a bookshelf

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Celebrate AOC's beautiful path to the 2028 presidency, as proclaimed by Andrew and Tristan Tate's lawyer. 'McBride saw it as a given that MAGA couldn’t afford to lose his clients, writing on Instagram, “AOC will be the next President without the Manosphere and Andrew Tate.” '

“Andrew Tate was a material participant in ensuring President Trump’s victory,” McBride says. “And if Trump doesn’t support him, and if the next people who are going to be running for office potentially are just like, yeah, down the river he goes, that young cohort of people will break with the Republican Party in the next election.”

McBride saw it as a given that MAGA couldn’t afford to lose his clients, writing on Instagram, “AOC will be the next President without the Manosphere and Andrew Tate.”

“If your superhero is betrayed by somebody,” he tells me, “the person who’s betrayed them, how can you support them ever again?”

https://www.vanityfair.com/story/andrew-tate-extradition-trump-manosphere?

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/07/2026

AI is an ordinary technology, but the AI bubble *is* extraordinary: extraordinarily toxic and extraordinarily dangerous. 38/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 28/07/2026

That means that the dream of chatbots as replacements for teachers is a nightmare. Getting rid of teachers because we all have chatbots is like getting rid of doctors because we all have the plague. eof/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16/07/2026

Market theory goes like this: even the best of us can fall prey to selfishness and rationalization, so let's arrange society so people acting on their most selfish impulses end up producing benefit for all of us. That'll be easier and more reliable than convincing everyone to be more generous. 1/

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 25/06/2026

Cory Doctorow explains what a "reverse centaur" is and how the concept can help us understand new technologies in a socially responsible way. His new book is titled "The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI: How to Think About Artificial Intelligence — Before It’s Too Late."

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Micah @rincewind.run · 01/07/2026

a) there are, like, single digit trans girls in sports in most states (sometimes literally one!), this entire thing is made up so that one girl who wants to play sports with her friends can't do it b) do not, under any circumstances, make policy based on angry sports parents

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Grimly amusing Dem machines think they deserve some sort of entitlement hierarchy. My entire life, everything has been moving backwards, politically, democratically, bureaucratically, judicially. You are all failures. You are presumptively part of the rot that must be removed down to the root.

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HK Dunston @hkdunston.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

this explains a lot: "The Wall Street Journal’s business editor moves into Alex’s house, having accepted a part-time position as Alex’s human footstool. He never asks to see the books."

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HK Dunston @hkdunston.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Reminder for no reason: a trillion is a THOUSAND billion

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Micah @rincewind.run · 10/06/2026

kalshi and polymarket should, flatly, be regulated out of existence I'm generally not big on moral arguments for this stuff but they are tremendously destructive to civil society as a whole

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 07/06/2026

In the real world, enduring progress comes through non-zero-sum cooperation over time, and anyone who has worked in a professional context knows that nothing makes such cooperation more difficult than the presence of egotistical men convinced they are bold risk-takers possessed of masculine energy.

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 06/06/2026

Entering month 6 of Mamdani's NYC & Robberies are down 11%, Retail theft is down 19%, & Murder is down 21%—all without "Adding 5000 new cops." Instead, he's invested in public safety free childcare, food, and better funded schools. Safer cities come from investing in people—not punishments.

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HK Dunston @hkdunston.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

“Faking the moon landing is a good step toward faking a Mars colony, but it’s not a good step toward actually putting astronauts on Mars.”

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

ICE is not about immigration. ICE is about normalizing a paramilitary force on peaceful streets. Abolish ICE.

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Pete Sikora @petesikora.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

I’ve now seen one story since the NYC power grid added just a massive amount of renewable energy on Monday. About 20% of the city’s grid is now renewable energy! Should be a huge good news story! Share the news 🎉🎉🎉 www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/06/03/c...

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 30/05/2026

The thing that infuriates me about this statement is that under AG Sulzberger, The New York Times has been the most useful propaganda partner setting the stage for Donald Trump, the Supreme Court, and Christian Nationalists to carry out an anti-trans and anti-Palestinian pogrom

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 25/05/2026

New report from IRENA confirms that "in prime solar and wind regions, hybrid solutions combined with storage deliver round-the-clock power at lower costs than fossil fuels." Renewables+storage = round-the-clock power, cheaper than fossil fuels, in an ever-widening set of geographies. Pretty cool.

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Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

On the one-year anniversary of EMPIRE OF AI, I am so, so excited to announce The AI Resist List, a new project that documents examples of resistance to the AI empires around the world 😍 airesistlist.org

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Jordan Uhl @jordanuhl.com · 23/05/2026

If this was a blind ballot and you only saw a campaign's backers, which side would you pick? But this isn't a hypothetical. On the left are Xavier Becerra's backers. Tom Steyer's endorsements on the right.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 20/05/2026

OpenAI Announces Construction Of New Data Center On Top Of Sick Child

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

My taxes are going to murder school children overseas and to let pardoned insurrectionist pedophiles get their hush money payoffs to victims, meanwhile, the papers of record want to let me know the real danger is the guy who taxes second homes in Manhattan to balance budgets and feed hungry kids.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Imagine being a billionaire in an unequal society where the system has been massively rigged in your favor, watching as ordinary people fall further and further behind and get more and more desperate, and thinking a slightly higher tax rate is the worst possible thing that might ever happen to you.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

the president is raiding the treasury to put your tax dollars into this mans personal checking account as a reward for what hes doing in this picture

A picture of a man inside the Capitol rotunda on January 6 2021. He is wearing full camo tactical gear, masked, carrying zip ties and climbing over a bannister in the gallery

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Skye @simplyskye.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Mamdani: I cannot help but think of the words of our 40th president, Ronald Reagan. He famously said, “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are 'I'm from the govt & I'm here to help'" I think nine more terrifying words are actually, "I worked all day and can't feed my family"

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HK Dunston @hkdunston.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

“The question for any Democrat running for anything in the next four years … is whether you understand what it means: what it broke, what it’ll cost, what you’re willing to do to hold this country together while there’s still a country to hold. “ open.substack.com/pub/betterdo...

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The VRA Was the Nice Version

SCOTUS has forced our hands, and now patience is our enemy.

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HK Dunston @hkdunston.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

necessary voice telling us necessary things: “The goo is not going to be come a caterpillar again” ie transformation is already underway way. Petro-patriarchy isn’t going down without a fight but they have already been defeated. They just don’t know it yet.

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Evan Berry @ecothought.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Time to regulate industries that over-consume scarce water resources: cattle, mining, and data centers

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 12/05/2026

folx, I’ve been working on AI "ethics" for almost a decade now & hate to tell you there’s no such thing as "ethical AI" the only "ethical principle" that works is regulating the shit out of the industry & to take back control of our autonomy, fundamental rights, freedoms & right to exist w/out AI

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

The U.S. has spent billions to lose a war that enriches its oligarchs, impoverishes the citizenry, sabotages its alliances, and strengthens its enemies. Empires have risen and failed before, but to my knowledge no state has ever chosen to kill its own power. snyder.substack.com/p/on-superpo...

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On Superpower Suicide

And the recovery of justice

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HK Dunston @hkdunston.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

This is obviously horrific at any time but this is exam week at Smith. This news is going to throw all these already stressed-out kids into a tailspin. The cruelty is the point always. F*ck these f*cukers apnews.com/article/smit...

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Education Department opens probe into Smith College for admitting trans women

The U.S. Department of Education has opened an investigation into Smith College, an all-women’s institution in Massachusetts, for admitting transgender women.

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Niko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

By gutting the Voting Rights Act, the Supreme Court is killing the Second Reconstruction. The first Reconstruction shows how Congress should respond. Me and Daphna Renan in the NYT on the tools we have to save democracy from a hostile Court.

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Opinion | Ruling by Ruling, the Supreme Court Is Undoing the Civil Rights Movement

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

An administration run by zealots and oil-soaked sellouts, engaged in an epic act of national economic self-sabotage.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

If there are any Democrats who are thinking of running for the presidency on 2028 on anything less than a clear agenda of widespread prosecution for this administration's corruption and fundamental structural changes to ensure it can't happen again, they should just stop right there.

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Breaking: New study using observational constraints projects that the Atlantic Ocean circulation #AMOC will weaken ~50% by 2100, even for medium emissions and without Greenland melting. 🌊 More realistic models means stronger weakening - not entirely unexpected. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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