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Former engineering professor. Forever husband and Red Sox fan. “Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.” Frank Herbert - Dune

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 11h
I’d love to see Jack Smith appointed Attorney General by the next Democratic president! 🇺🇸💙
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 6h
Rahm Emanuel should focus on shutting up and going away.
NBC: Rahm Emanuel says Democrats should focus on ethics reforms rather than impeaching Trump
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Read Books, Not AI Slop @ireadnewspapers.bsky.social · 6h
Saying the fascist part out loud.
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Read Books, Not AI Slop @ireadnewspapers.bsky.social · 7h
The irony, as the Microsoft document pointed out, is that the AI industry is a snake eating its own tail: the very products that it’s pushing on users rely on fresh cultural content even as they destroy the economic incentives to create it. The tech bros are geniuses? futurism.com/artificial-i...
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AI Is Creating "Doom Loops" All Over the Economy
The AI industry is creating "doom loops" across the economy with products that undermine the economic incentive to create cultural content.
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Read Books, Not AI Slop @ireadnewspapers.bsky.social · 9h
www.counterpunch.org/2026/10/02/c...
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Corporations Keep Finding New Ways to Gouge Us
Every day, companies find better, and sneakier, ways to reach deeper into our wallets. They trap us in subscriptions, bury fees until checkout, use
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Read Books, Not AI Slop @ireadnewspapers.bsky.social · 9h
Americans who subscribe to Christian nationalist beliefs tend to be characterized by lower education and substantial knowledge deficits across multiple domains. ... Findings affirm that Christian nationalism appeals to Americans with lower verbal intelligence onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Cognitive Ability and Christian Nationalism
Americans who subscribe to Christian nationalist beliefs tend to be characterized by lower education and substantial knowledge deficits across multiple domains. Building on research connecting lower ...
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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 14h
"Hey Senator Eric Schmitt - On Oct 3, 2026, Special Counsel, Jack Smith was at Power To The People, in Columbia,Md rocking out and protesting with 20,000 other anti-fascists-- 20 feet from my spot on the lawn, Dirtbag!" - Maria Kopsidas For more photos and full video check the link in comments ⤵️
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Read Books, Not AI Slop @ireadnewspapers.bsky.social · 14h
This is delusional. Whoever thinks AI can replace experts has never used AI. Delusion is the risk. Not AI.
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Futurism @futurism.com · 15h
"AI has advanced so far that the complete disruption of the economy is all but certain."
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Credit Rating Firm Says the Economy Is About to Be Obliterated
The credit rating firm Egan-Jones proclaimed that AI is all but certain to completely disrupt the economy and annihilate white collar jobs.
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Ting Barrow @tingb.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The new #tRump coin.
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Pathetic 😡
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Capitalists and rapists revel in victim blaming ... meme via David Royce Leach
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Read Books, Not AI Slop @ireadnewspapers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If Facebook collapses, several major problems are suddenly solved.
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Firms have stopped hiring anyone they think they’ll soon be able to automate. Lawmakers won’t stop the race to automate our jobs unless we make them.
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The Bosses’ Oldest Dream
The first computers were designed with labor discipline in mind. Today’s AI industry is finishing the job, and young white-collar workers are already paying the price.
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The first computers were designed with labor discipline in mind. Today’s AI industry is finishing the job, and young white-collar workers are already paying the price.
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The Bosses’ Oldest Dream
The first computers were designed with labor discipline in mind. Today’s AI industry is finishing the job, and young white-collar workers are already paying the price.
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Read Books, Not AI Slop @ireadnewspapers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Delusional sociopath. apple.news/AXaW8xAEzQXO...
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Anthropic Warns AI May Kill Us All in $2 Trillion IPO Pitch — New York Magazine
Fresh off an SNL parody, CEO Dario Amodei has become the public face of potential apocalypse.
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Read Books, Not AI Slop @ireadnewspapers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
AI will make this far worse. apple.news/AZ9zkydElSqK...
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Opinion | A grim prognosis for the post-literate future — The Washington Post
James Marriott's “The New Dark Ages” on the death of reading may not be sufficiently pessimistic.
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Read Books, Not AI Slop @ireadnewspapers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
What was the manager thinking? sports.yahoo.com/articles/dum...
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‘Dumb’ – Red Sox fans are furious with Chad Tracy’s decision to pull Payton Tolle in Game 1 loss
The Boston Red Sox were emphatically beaten by the New York Yankees in the opening game of their Wild Card round tie. It was not even close in the end as the Yankees scored seven of their nine runs in...
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Read Books, Not AI Slop @ireadnewspapers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Let’s go Red Sox!!!!!!!!
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Read Books, Not AI Slop @ireadnewspapers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Kind of says it all.
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Read Books, Not AI Slop @ireadnewspapers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
AOC introduced a bill that would prevent private equity from owning medical practices. The devastation that private equity is causing is horrific. This article is a decent introduction. www.esquire.com/news-politic...
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The U.S. Is Becoming a Private-Equity Hellscape. Can Anyone Save Us?
Greedy slicksters are scooping up farms and doctor’s offices and ruining them for profit. Only in America!
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Wait. Which country is he talking about?
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm…
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Read Books, Not AI Slop @ireadnewspapers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Peter Thiel thinks the value of a person depends on what they produce. The Pope disagrees. Thiel and the AI pushers are evil. Thiel is the Antichrist of which he speaks.
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Read Books, Not AI Slop @ireadnewspapers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Evil is good. Should be on the sequel to 1984.
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Read Books, Not AI Slop @ireadnewspapers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
AI just suggested I might be a good fit for a job as an Indian chef. I have a PhD in engineering. Still think these things are geniuses? Still want to bet the future of the world on it?
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"At least six babies in Pennsylvania have been born infected with measles, with two so sick they had to be admitted to intensive care. Congenital measles is a disease that’s rarely, if ever, seen in the U.S..." www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
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America had wiped out measles. Now babies are infected at birth.
Congenital measles has rarely been seen in the U.S. That’s changing as vaccination declines and more pregnant women become infected.
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JMFP @jmfpv.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just received: The Nerd Reich by @gilduran.com and Cyberselfish by Paulina Borsook. Living in Portugal and watching Silicon Valley ideology reshape Europe — these are essential. The problem is well beyond the US. and Big Tech's political project knows no borders.
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Read Books, Not AI Slop @ireadnewspapers.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"So if you were ever curious to know what kind of future our tech billionaire overlords have in mind for future generations, now you know: a future where it’s fine if nobody knows their own phone number, because your AI assistant will know it for you." futurism.com/health-medic...
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Says That Sacrificing Our Children's Minds to AI Is a Price He's Willing to Pay
Thanks to AI, it won't matter if students can do multiplication, or even remember their own home address, tech billionaire Jensen Huang said.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 25/09/2026
The far-right ideologues and grifters running U.S. foreign policy are the vanguard of a movement that will alter not just America but the world, @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu reports.
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Donald Trump’s Empire of Grift
Far-right ideologues have transformed American foreign policy into a tool of private gain and antidemocratic reaction.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Good piece on this new variety of American fascist preacher. To my mind, there’s not much that’s original about these guys. This is just old school Christian Identity doctrine ca. 1940-1990s rebranded—the stuff Wesley Swift or Richard Butler were preaching. religionnews.com/2026/09/24/t...
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The rise of the Jim Crow theobros
(RNS) — A group of Reformed pastors and influencers has wedded old-school segregationist theology with the hypermasculinity of the manosphere and the savvy of the attention economy to preach and sell ...
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 25/09/2026
Reading about these creepy "network states" in NERD REICH by @gilduran.com right now. Disgusting.
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Read Books, Not AI Slop @ireadnewspapers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Poor kids are usually the guinea pigs. Parents are paying $75K tuition to have their kids be experimented on at school. with AI teachers. I guess the rich really need to believe in AI. Unbelievable. futurism.com/artificial-i...
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The Situation at Alpha School Is Darker Than We Thought Possible
The kind of education students are being exposed to at Alpha Schools is nothing short of shocking, according to the latest reporting.
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Read Books, Not AI Slop @ireadnewspapers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
When AI solves Wordle, it starts with SLATE, jumps to another word that looks random and then guesses the answer. Assumed it was cheating. Apparent, it does the same with math. 😆🤣😀
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Futurism @futurism.com · 24/09/2026
"The paper is not written for humans."
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Mathematicians Can't Make Sense of How OpenAI's Agents Solved One of the Toughest Math Problems Because the AI's "Proof" Is Borderline Incomprehensible
Mathematicians say they're still unpacking OpenAI's solution for the Navier-Stokes problems because the AI's proof is nearly incomrehensible.
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Natalie Korach @nataliekorach.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The anonymous “senior administration official” behind one of the stories the White House cited to justify banning POLITICO was none other than Vice President JD Vance, @oliverdarcy.bsky.social scoops www.status.news/p/white-hous...
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The Source Behind The Ban
The anonymous source behind one of the stories the White House cited to justify banning POLITICO was none other than Vice President JD Vance, Status has learned.
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Read Books, Not AI Slop @ireadnewspapers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
All a fridge needs to do is keep my food cold. I don’t need it telling me I eat too much. 😀
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Read Books, Not AI Slop @ireadnewspapers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I asked Gemini how to turn off Gemini. It crashed. Switched to a non-AI browser.
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 24/09/2026
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Read Books, Not AI Slop @ireadnewspapers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
When nobody under 30 can read, we might start to think about limiting AI usage. futurism.com/artificial-i...
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Former Google Exec Warns That AI Could Be Causing Terrible Harm to Minors, Even Worse Than Social Media
A former Google safety executive warned of the harm AI is doing to minors, and called for a slowdown in AI development.
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Read Books, Not AI Slop @ireadnewspapers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
James Comey is prosecuted for posting a picture of seashells. NH Libertarian chair calls for the execution of all elected Democrats and nothing from law enforcement. Dangerous times. www.rawstory.com/new-hampshir...
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'Cannot go unpunished': Backlash after state Libertarian Party 'calls for murder' of Dems
Democrats and libertarians alike condemned the Libertarian Party of New Hampshire after it said it supports the assassination of "basically every elected Democrat" in the state.The party posted the me...
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Shirley Eugest 🗽⚖️4️⃣👥 @eugestshirley.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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These techno-utopians wanted to put scientists in charge of government
In the first half of the 20th century, a group called Technocracy Incorporated wanted to reorganize society by putting scientists in charge. The movement flamed out, but its underlying message still a
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Shirley Eugest 🗽⚖️4️⃣👥 @eugestshirley.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
It is almost as though Trump's presidency has been influenced as well as paid for by Joshua Haldeman's grandson, Elon. Technocracy, Inc. and the "Technate of America" circa 1940, anyone? bostonraremaps.com/inventory/te...
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Technocracy, Inc. and the Technate of America - Boston Rare Maps
TECHNOCRACY. Series A, No. 19. New York: Technocracy Inc., July 1940.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 23/09/2026
⚠️ Trump’s DHS has withheld a document that could potentially detail how the administration plans to use armed federal agents at polling places for the midterms. Now, Democrats are demanding to see the document — and a federal judge is forcing DHS's hand: demdock.com/4rpXdl3
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 21/09/2026
The real reason AI bosses want a pause: They aren’t afraid of superintelligence, they are afraid of competition, writes Nerve tech columnist @doctorow.pluralistic.net www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...
AI’s big beasts aren’t really scared of their products. They’re scared of their competition. By Cory Doctorow. Image of OpenAI, Meta and Google logos.
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Read Books, Not AI Slop @ireadnewspapers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I guess I’ll have to buy a car.
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 22/09/2026
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New Anthropic, OpenAI models make same promise: A little more for a lot less money
The frontier AI model race has entered its comparison shopping phase.
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Truthdig @truthdig.com · 22/09/2026
The hyped-up threat of AI apocalypse is used to misdirect both opposition and regulation. Don’t fall for it. www.truthdig.com/articles/dis...
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Discipline and Punish: How to Think About the AI Industry’s Extinction Pitch
The hyped-up threat of AI apocalypse is used to misdirect both opposition and regulation. Don’t fall for it.
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Read Books, Not AI Slop @ireadnewspapers.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Taking down a major company could bring lawsuits. apple.news/Aq3iI7HE7RcO...
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Is There a Secret Reason for the Industry-Wide AI Slowdown? — Futurism
Genuine concern or safety theater? Plenty of eyebrows went up this summer when one by one, the leaders of frontier AI labs announced that they were each calling for a slowdown in AI development. Anthr...
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 22/09/2026
Jaw-dropping documents from our lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI reveal how tech leaders talk when they think no one is listening: We may have pulled off “the largest theft of labor in human history.”
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AI exec: We may have pulled off “the largest theft of labor in human history.”
Documents from our lawsuit reveal how tech leaders talk when they think no one is listening.
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