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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 24/09/2026

Aaron Swartz is no longer here to tell us what he saw like twenty years ago. futurism.com/artificial-i...

Swartz had been batchmates with Altman in the inaugural class of 2005 at the Silicon Valley incubator Y Combinator, and warned his friends about Altman shortly before his passing.

“You need to understand that Sam can never be trusted,” he told one confidante. “He is a sociopath. He would do anything.”

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

lol holy shit I wouldn't talk about literally anything else if I was the guy running against him. —"What do you think about trans kids in sp-" —"Did you hear my opponent had his patient, who was 8 months pregnant, arrested in front of her son because she didn't pay a $50 medical bill?"

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Rough day for Susan Collins in the local Maine press, where ProPublica's bombshell story is the lead story.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 14/09/2026

And, as I said at the start, none of this addresses the very real harms that LLMs have already wrought, and will continue to do so. We cannot let vague concerns about AI safety escape from what this industry has done and will continue to do. www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-alread...

There are, however, things we can do, per former FTC Chair Lina Khan, if we actually had any interest in doing so:

There is an extensive set of laws that govern dangerous and defective products. For example, releasing unvetted AI models or agents can violate consumer protection laws. Shipping flawed AI tools without implementing adequate measures to detect and stop rogue or defective AI agents can be an “unfair or deceptive” act or practice under the FTC Act (and analogous state laws). And some state AGs are already exploring holding AI firms and their CEOs criminally liable when their models participate in criminal activity.
If LLMs were a toy, they’d be taken off the shelves. If LLMs were a drug, they would be banned.

I agree that we need to take “AI safely” seriously, but that starts with treating LLMs as normal software run in a reckless and dangerous manner by malevolent entities with little regard for society.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Wow. Proponents of the ICE taser gloves are openly saying that one reason they love the gloves is that they doesn’t leave any marks or proof that they were used, making it harder for people to sue when they’re shocked excessively.

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"In today's society, you know, everybody's filming everything, everybody has a cell phone," Glueck said. If an officer punches someone on camera, that can go viral in an instant; even a standard taser leaves puncture wounds. But "the glove is low optic, and it looks better on camera, and it looks better to those witnesses. With a glove, there are no burn marks or scars."

But local police across the country are still eagerly buying the gloves—in large part so that they can harm people and avoid being sued for it. It's been successful "from the patrolmen to the jailers," Lumpkin County Sheriff Stacy Jarrard said in a Compliant Technologies promotional video. "It's been a great tool as far as mitigating liability," according to Nelson County Jailer Justin Hall.
Bob Couey of the Floyd County Sheriff's Department sung the GLOVE's praises, too: "I highly recommend these gloves to anybody that's looking for a utility they can use that is conducive to not leading to lawsuits."

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

A key part of Lindsey Graham's legacy: when he called Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/12/u...

"Mr. Raffensperger later said that Mr. Graham had suggested rejecting all mail-in votes from counties with high rates of questionable signatures. Mr. Graham, who at the time was chairman of the Judiciary Committee, said that he was acting in his official capacity as a senator."

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anti-zionist dog 🇵🇸 @puppydoggaming.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

i will say lindsey graham being asked by a reporter how mitch mcconnell is doing, answering “i don’t know, i’m going to check right now” and then dying is hilarious

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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Michael Fanone's take on Lindsey Graham is one of the most powerful I've read:

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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has announced that Mexico is taking legal action against the United States in regards to the cold blooded murder of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo by an ICE killer in Texas. They’ll pursue justice for the mistreatment of Mexican nationals. Good. 💙👊

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Budd @n7eoj.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

It has been criminally underreported but Kelsey Pfendler has just rowed solo across the Pacific Ocean from the US coast to Hawaii in record time. A 2,400-mile unsupported journey in 43 days, 17 hours, and 55 minutes. Notably beating the Men’s record by 9 whole days.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Trying to pick apart a woman's text messages to prove she's lying about being raped is gutter behavior. Consent can be revoked at any time and reading insinuations into text messages that the sender denies were there is ACTUAL journalistic malpractice. I would not trust a man who does this!

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Cormac MacFhionnlaoich @cormacscoast.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

(1/2) Resembling the tiny parts of an impossibly intricate and eye-catching timepiece, strewn from a watchmakers toolkit, these are in fact fossil Crinoids, Corals, Bryozoans and Brachiopods.

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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

This is absolutely shameful - from both Tice and the Telegraph

Tice, via lawyers, threatened to injunct the Guardian to stop it publishing these details.

Without responding to any of the questions put to him, Tice then appears to have shared the allegations contained in the Guardian’s requests for comment with the Telegraph, which wrote them up without credit or contact ahead of publication.
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

25. More important than whether Platner is a “secret Nazi” is the question of whether he means what he says – and whether, in the event of victory, promises made are going to be promises kept. www.editorialboard.com/the-marine-c...

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The Marine Corps probably told Platner what the Totenkopf is

The hate symbol likely prevented him from returning to active duty in 2009.

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

10. There’s another thing Platner knew before his Senate campaign began: he has a long paper trail. Somewhere in the Marine Corps archives is a thick file with his name on it containing photos, signatures and other documents that establish every interaction he had with the Marines about his tattoos.

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Rachel Hallie @dazedrachel.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I think the Platner thing hit me so hard bc it was one of the most protracted, widespread acts of misogynist gaslighting from my own side that I've seen. We were presented with an obvious violent scumbag who was constantly lying (badly, might I add) and told we were crazy for not loving him

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Ruth Fox @ruthfox.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

🧵 Amid all the speculation about Nigel Farage's 2pm statement, it's worth noting paragraph 40 of the Procedural Protocol to the MPs' Code of Conduct. If he announces he's resigning and seeking a by-election, that would not automatically end the investigation into whether he breached the Code in...

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 06/07/2026

challenging to phrase this exactly right because it'd be in bad taste to use this as a gotcha against all his supporters, but the journalists who very explicitly framed Platner as a rejection of stuff like "HR Lady Politics" or (ugh) "smoothgroins" should take a long, hard, look in the mirror today

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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

this guy is the co-founder of Airbnb

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Washington Post v. Democracy Docket The media you consume is a statement of your values. Support pro-democracy independent media. Subscribe to Democracy Docket. bit.ly/4qmEiFz

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rokrish98.bsky.social @rokrish98.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Also American Diplomats trying to get the Indian Military to coup the democratically elected government every 10 minutes to the point where Manekshaw lost his shit at the US Ambassador when asked about it (jokingly per Keating) at a party "As soon as General Westmoreland takes over your country!"

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Some journalists seem to accept Trump's claim that his Venezuela operation was a "big success." Facts: He kidnapped Venezuela's leader and left the No. 2 in power, with no path to elections. He killed about 100 people. He shut Congress out of the decision-making. He's stealing Venezuela's oil.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

It is seriously alarming how many of the world’s wealthiest and most powerful people are just screamingly mentally unwell in deeply toxic, dangerous ways.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 03/07/2026

UK Bluesky is normally really easy to follow, except the one week a month it descends into incomprehensible screaming because someone from North Flobershire dared refer to themselves as a Galbrilander despite their nan having actually been born south of Brookingsmarch-on-the-Tarrowack.

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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 03/07/2026

I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

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Chris Addison @mrchrisaddison.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Here's a thing. The Oval was packed tonight for the women's T20 World Cup semifinal. Pretty much nobody is covering it - the football world cup, the Stokes debacle, Wimbledon, they're all taking up the space. But still. The ground was totally full. That tells you everything about the state of it.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 02/07/2026

Listen. I spent more than a decade as a theatrical technician, rigging stages, hanging lights, flying scenery, etc. The number of times I have dropped anything on a stage with performers on it is zero. The number of times I’ve dropped something that might’ve killed someone is zero. This is major.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

This is the right decision and suspect others will now follow, but very interesting timing on this

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Pam Spaulding @pamspaulding.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

🤣 #ETTD "On Wednesday, the plywood model — installed at the center of the National Mall — seemed to ooze thick globs of yellow spray foam or some other building material." 📺 youtube.com/shorts/z0O_h... 🧾 ‘Must be the vandals again,’ wrote one X user www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

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LOL: Caulk seen OOZING out of Trump’s fake arch at state fair

YouTube video by Brian Tyler Cohen

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Glad everyone’s ok — it’s also hard to imagine a better metaphor for the current state of 🇺🇸 than this

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Eliza Orlins @elizaorlins.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

HOLY SHIT. FIFA President Gianni Infantino is at the USA game, sitting with Howard Lutnick, Secretary of Commerce AND CLOSE PERSONAL FRIEND OF JEFFREY EPSTEIN. Disgusting.

pic of the two mentioned smiling at the USA game

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

#r4today reporting BBC’s investigation into people smuggler ‘King’. Justin Webb totally crestfallen when told by immigration specialist that Brexit binned the data sharing agreement we had with the EU. So, we can’t now properly check. We don’t have access to Eurodac - the fingerprint database. Ffs.

People smuggler convicted in France found by BBC living in UK and seeking asylum

Since Brexit, the UK no longer has a data-sharing agreement with many countries in the EU, making it more difficult to check criminal and immigration records of asylum seekers, according to Lucy Moreton of the Immigration Services Union.
"If we were able to share databases, even if just with our nearest neighbours, with Germany, with Belgium, with Holland and France, say - then, yes, we'd know that they had a conviction for people smuggling," she said.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Texas mother was turned away by two different emergency rooms when she sought treatment for a miscarriage seven weeks into her pregnancy. Even as she developed a fever, writhed in pain, and suffered massive bleeding—she was refused care. www.huffpost.com/entry/texas-...

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Texas Passed A New Law After 3 Women Died During Miscarriage. Why Was This Mother Still Denied Life-Saving Care?

Like so many women denied miscarriage care since the fall of Roe v. Wade, Lynn Callaway developed an infection, according to a new lawsuit — leaving her at death’s door with no one to turn to for help...

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M. Ella @incredimella.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

un.real. how is this real ffs.

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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

If there was any doubt that Gov Jared Polis’ legacy is freeing Tina Peters, the NYT reports Polis just fired the clemency board members who revealed he overruled their unanimous wishes www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/u...

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Colorado Governor Fires Officials Who Opposed Freeing Election Denier

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 01/07/2026

ICE agents are illegally obscuring their license plates in IL—and getting more violent about it. This week, an agent assaulted a teen for filming his unmarked vehicle, reaching for his taser as he charged. Filming ICE in public is legal. Assaulting someone for it is not. More from Dylan Blaha.

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ICE Agents Continue to Illegally Obscure Their License Plates in Illinois

The Illinois Attorney General and the City of Chicago sued ICE and CBP over their illegal activities. Trump's Gestapo continues to break our laws anyway.

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Daniel Abraham @abraham.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Physical books. You own them. They don't require updates. They don't surveil you or collect and sell your data. They are a genuinely safe hallucinogen that leaves you smarter and more empathetic and with a longer attention span the more you use them. Free from the library. What's not to like?

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Lib Dem Peers @libdempeers.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Forty years ago today, Dominic Addington joined the House of Lords, going on to speak more than a thousand times and becoming one of its most consistent attendees. Much of that work devoted to improving support for SEND. Congratulations, Dominic!

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

FIFTEEN THOUSAND PEOPLE FROM 60 COUNTRIES ARE HERE FOR THIS SHIT???

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

prepare to have your daughter accused of being a boy and face demands that her gentials be inspected if the dad on the other team thinks that she fouled his special snowflake too hard

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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Seeing how the US Supreme Court nearly made millions of people stateless and how there is an active effort by MAGA to make people stateless, I think it is necessary for the world to seriously consider the problems of statelessness.

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Phil Weiser @philweiser.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Tina Peters' conduct since her release makes clear that she lacks remorse. Instead of taking responsibility for her actions, she is challenging the basis of her prosecution. Her conviction was valid, her sentence was appropriate, and the commutation was a historic mistake.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Sorry I was absent from my job as the Baby Healthcare Slasher. I had depression for reasons that I’m sure are entirely unrelated to that. Anyways back to my job giving everyone infectious diseases and driving teenagers to suicide.

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