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Richard Barnes

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Trying to do right by the world, in part by using computers and cryptography. (🦋 DMs disabled, please use Germ 🦠)

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 3h
Last year not a single refugee fleeing religious persecution was admitted to the US.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 13h
This is the 59th death in ICE detention since Trump took office.
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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 17h
Latest WSJ poll: "63% want to pause AI development 61% want a billionaire wealth tax 59% want Medicare for All 57% want a $20 minimum wage 58% want to end U.S. military aid to Israel" This is the center of the country politically. it is time all adjust to this political spectrum, esp. media.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 01/10/2026
if this woman goes to jail she should be a day 1 pardon for the next dem administration
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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
there are moral arguments against the death penalty in its ideal form but in real life you never need to get there. the prior question is "can the state be trusted to end the life only of the rightly convicted without torture?" and the answer is no
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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
everyone knows the most important thing about a military officer is if he has a beard which is why Grant so famously was a worse general than McClellan
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Fred, His Enemy Getting a Vote @thefred.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The strategy next time should be to indict everyone for everything, everywhere. The ex-president, if alive, should get a hundred indictments, spread across as many districts as possible, with as many state charges separately brought as possible. Cabinet members and aides should get dozens.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Not just impeachable. Impeachment, both pres. and agency heads, is the only option. It's impeachment or nothing. Courts won't stop it. Other tools are impotent. Put them on trial the only way you can. Even if you can't get 2/3, use process as punishment. Make it miserable and costly. It can be done.
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Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Peter Magyar is currently enacting a Liberal Currents fantasy where he amends the constitution to ban anyone associated with the old regime from ever holding office again and is somehow polling at 68% (he won with 53%) and I’m not saying that’s possible anywhere else but Dems should like, ask him
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.
A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with 
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future
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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's a bit of a bummer that the story today has been "look at this absolute doofus of a senator" and not "Jack Smith once again credibly accuses the president of many serious crimes"
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A truly heinous man has doxxed the Cornell victim on X and the comments are predictably vile. Based on countless interviews I’ve done with survivors, the trauma they are subjected to for coming forward is oftentimes even worse than the initial trauma they experienced. There is no real justice system
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social
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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.
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Filippo Valsorda @filippo.abyssdomain.expert · 28/09/2026
I'm excited to announce that the PLC Organization now has a statute! And a bank account! And a @standard.site publication! All the important stuff. The PLC Org is an independent Swiss Association meant to operate the PLC directory, which collects and distributes signed updates to atproto accounts.
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First steps of the PLC organization - Public Ledger of Credentials Organization
One year ago, Bluesky Social PBC announced their intention to facilitate the creation of an independent organization to operate the Public Ledger of Credenti…
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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 28/09/2026
Hello World from the PLC organization (plcred.org)! The org was soft-announced back in March at AtmosphereConf. We've been working through logistics step by step and now have a public web presence we can point to.
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First steps of the PLC organization
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Richard Barnes @ipv.sx · 28/09/2026
I presume you mean ways of measuring Super Intelligence
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026
If you were in camp “focus on the important things” when they were restoring Confederate monuments and base names here but can recognize the danger there you may want to interrogate some things.
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
yes my bull went rogue in your china shop but I think we can all agree there’s no liability here it’s an agentic being
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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I don't mean what I'm about to say in a sappy way, but a fairly hard-nosed one: natural ecosystems are often remarkably good at recovering from serious local natural disasters *if they are given the chance.*
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A rich person can never be held accountable. Therefore, a rich person must never make a societal decision
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.
Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Here are some nice mushrooms
A family of firey orange mycena mushrooms grow from the side of a fallen log under warm fall overgrowth. All photos by me
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𝐟𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐠 @ruleo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
hell yeah found my old GitSe edit
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WholesomeMemes @wholesomememe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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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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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
it is genuinely obscene that prior to this point it was considered good for american democracy that nixon and reagan were never prosecuted
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Raskin made a holy shit observation on MS Now this afternoon: Since taking office, Trump has made a million dollars per hour for himself. Every hour, he has made more than twice the president’s annual salary.
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 24/09/2026
Look, we know for fucking sure that my dog is sapient and also unpredictable and it turns out of he mauls someone I’m liable and he can be put down.
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It's hilarious that Huang things not knowing his address, zip-code and phone number are a mark of how he is cognitively off-loading to technology and Klein doesn't seem to press him that what he's actually obviously doing is using the fact that he's rich to off-load onto other humans.
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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Reading about Craig Newmark of Craigslist and trying to figure out how come he's not a billionaire. Well, the answer is philanthropy. "His exact net worth is not verifiable because he has given away such a massive portion of his fortune." The "good billionaires" are only millionaires, I guess.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is after China porch-pirated the military’s f-35 parts delivery
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 24/09/2026
Louisiana’s AG has pushed back against almost all compensation claims brought by the wrongfully convicted, even in cases where men were exonerated by DNA evidence. “She knows people are innocent but she doesn’t care,” one man said. with @veritenews.org
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He’s Eligible for Up to $480,000 After Being Wrongly Imprisoned for 42 Years. The State Says No.
Elvis Brooks’ case was an egregious example of a wrongful conviction, civil rights attorneys said. But Louisiana’s attorney general maintains that Brooks and other exonerees are guilty — and therefore...
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Richard Barnes @ipv.sx · 23/09/2026
Heh, I was just checking my Clearsky profile, and apparently I am on all of the following lists: - AI Hype Ridiculousness - AI Freaks - AI Haters As the old adage about compromise goes...
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Dr. Gabagool and the Salami of Secrets @jimpjorps.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
some consumer tech things that come to mind - balcony solar kits - reliable home 3D printers, laser engravers, vinyl cutters, etc - USB-C standardization - ultra-low-power-consumption ARM processors - better, cheaper accessibility and assistive technology - projects like Meshtastic and NYC Mesh
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 22/09/2026
"OpenAI co-founder and president Greg Brockman gave Trump's super PAC a whopping $25 million" is one of those things that could really stand to be pointed out more:
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OpenAI exec becomes top Trump donor with $25 million gift
The super PAC will help fund Republicans' midterm election battle.
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 21/09/2026
Chris Van Hollen issues the first ever call by a Democratic member of Congress for US officials to be sanctioned by other countries
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Miro Haller @mirohaller.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
We finally finished the universal signature forgery for 1024-bit RSA! 2^32 oracle queries, 1200 core years precomputation, 180 core years for an individual forgery, and 3 years of human labor (no AI involved) by Laura, Adam, Nadia, Emmanuel and me to pull of this computation against real HSMs.
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hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I'm coining a piece of AI safety terminology that I'd like to refer to as the Bond Villain problem. As a field, AI safety heavily leverages sci-fi pretty heavily, so I figure this should be fine.
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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 20/09/2026
Too many have forgotten that the civil rights movement was fought over, among other things, bathrooms and locker rooms
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The lawyer for the Venezuelan man shot by ICE yesterday says he was discharged from the hospital and transferred to ICE detention while the bullet was still inside of him, and that in Pearsall he's not received any pain meds and was forced to sleep on the floor.
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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
love that we're doing "god of the gaps" with ai
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
again saying the political response of local police depts probably worth following given Trump's efforts to federalize policing
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026
The AI industry wants you to say "the AI just did that thing on its own!" Like, United Health's AI that's denying a shitload of claims with a 90% error rate? They wanted you to think it's just the AI.
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