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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/10/2026
Sen. Pete Ricketts gets the Trump rally crowd in Nebraska to boo the mention of "transgender rights"
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Dan Friedman @dfriedman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It surprised me that the NYT story, which has five bylines, does not mention that Walters’ company, Salus Worldwide, has lost its $915M self-deportation contract. www.projectsaltbox.com/p/dhs-taps-r...
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DHS Taps ResponseAI, an ICE Skip-Tracing Contractor, to Run Self-Deportation Contract
The company, whose growing ICE portfolio includes locating people for deportation, will now run DHS’s contract for people leaving through the CBP Home app.
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The Great Pumpkinsquatch - Scott Kelley Ernest 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @mxscottkernest.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
BOMBSHELL: WaPo reports Trump's ads were funded with money meant for slain officers' funerals youtu.be/GwqOZ0eaoDI?...
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BOMBSHELL: WaPo reports Trump's ads were funded with money meant for slain officers' funerals
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026
Loll Yudkowsky, Soares and such AREN'T SHILLS? The Yudkowsky who founded the eugenicist, rationalist cult? The one who predected singularity to be 2025? The one in the sex parties that women have to attend to "network? The rape orgies with dubious consent mechanisms that Soares coorganizes?
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Aaron Littman @aaronlittman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Believe it or not, the Supreme Court was presented as far back as 1947 with the question whether attempting to execute someone a second time, after a botched first go round (then, in a portable electric chair known as “Rusty”), was cruel and unusual.
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 11/09/2026
I'm excited to share this preprint by my wonderful MSc student Yihsin who's thought deeply about how psychological & neurocognitive theories relate to different types of evidence. Beyond Empirical Success: Evaluating Theoretical Virtue Across the Computational Modeling Chain doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Beyond Empirical Success: Evaluating Theoretical Virtue Across the Computational Modeling Chain
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    Chuang, Yihsin
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    Guest, Olivia1
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Computational models in psychology are typically judged by a single standard: empirical fit. Unfortunately, fit is insufficient, even misleading as a sole criterion, as the same result can arise from fundamentally different situations: theoretically faithful models, mathematically flexible ones, miscalibrated operationalizations, or implementations that compute something other than intended. Distinguishing between these is vital. Our evaluative metatheoretical account recognises that models stand in three distinct relations: a) toward the theory whose causal commitments it purports to capture, b) toward the specification and implementation it purports to compute, and c) toward the phenomenon it purports to explain. Each relation can succeed or fail independently, governed by criteria local to that stage. Importantly, relations are ordered such that theoretical content is transmitted or lost, and losses at earlier transitions are irrecoverable downstream. What a model's empirical success implicates about its theoretical commitments, therefore, depends on whether transitions are secured. Some success or failure profiles support explanatory claims; others only prediction; others establish theoretical coherence without empirical contact. Our account diagnoses what a given model shows, replacing the implicit assumption that empirical success transfers automatically to theoretical understanding with an explicit conditional rendition of what models can and cannot establish.
a figure that looks like a cloud that stays "cognitive capacity" with an arrow pointing to a lozenge with "theory" which points to a lozenge with "specification" which points to the same with "data" which is pointed to by a cloud that says "phenomenon"
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 15/09/2026
Politicians who throw trans people under the bus: stop asking me for money
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Wayne Maddison @waynemaddison.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The Tree of Life web project is back! A phylogenetic view of biodiversity way ahead of its time (ca. 1995!), conceived and led by David Maddison, collaborative & human-curated, widely used in teaching. Defunct technology had doomed it until Travis, Danny, and Andrew revived it. 🥳🎉 🧪 #evolbiol
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
"Kennedy's department cited seven articles, two of which were apparently made up entirely and three of which did not exist in the journals to which they were attributed..." www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
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Judge slams HHS for referencing fake studies generated by misuse of AI
The Department of Health and Human Services has suffered more than its share of AI-related humiliations. The list, alas, is still growing.
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(s)noey❄️🏳️‍⚧️ @nelloshots.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
they genuinely would rather we not exist in the first place. so they settle for indirectly killing us. and then celebrate when we die
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Personally, I think what needs reckoning with is how fake it all was. Centrists convinced themselves annoying leftists on twitter were an equivalent threat to Jan 6 insurrectionists. They wildly inflated the threat of left-wing authoritarianism while ignoring how it was taking hold on the right.
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
"Federal officials offered the new details about the grant cancellations as part of an agreement with plaintiffs meant to spare the government an exhaustive, evidence-uncovering process known as discovery...That process could have required federal agencies to hand over more damaging records."
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
This story is crazy. It would appear Trump admin officials rigged their nationally televised high school civics contest to keep a young man from a Sikh family out of the finalists. www.notus.org/national/ame...
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Suspicion and Doubt at the National Civics Contest
America’s finest young scholars competed to mark their country's birthday. It led to a disputed finish in the age of mistrust.
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Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com · 23/07/2026
The Mayo Clinic's AI assistant has serious privacy problems, an extremely high error rate, and a team that manipulated data to lie about the tool. After raising concerns, the research director and AI compliance lead was fired. The future is bright! futurism.com/health-medic...
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
this seems like political poison with the desi community tbh
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Do you want to know how popular school vouchers are? They have never won on a ballot. Not once. In any state. Ever. The only way states are able pass a school voucher scheme is behind closed doors. Legislatively. The people would never approve their tax dollars going to private religious schools.
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Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Another loss for the Trump administration and a win for honorable transgender service members who were promised early retirements if they “voluntarily” (it wasn't) chose to go and then were stripped of them after retirements were approved. www.advocate.com/politics/nat...
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Judge rejects Trump administration bid to dismiss transgender Air Force troops’ retirement lawsuit
A federal judge ruled that all 17 service members may continue challenging the Air Force’s decision to revoke early retirements it had already approved.
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Just canceled my DashPass and sent this email to DoorDash. I encourage you to do the same if you support D.C. home rule. press@doordash.com and ir@doordash.com
Hello,

I’m writing to let you know that I just canceled my DashPass because of DoorDash’s disgraceful campaign against D.C. home rule.

DoorDash is urging Congress to nullify a new D.C. law imposing a 20 percent tax on food-delivery services—not merely by overturning that law, but by prohibiting the District from enacting any new tax without prior congressional approval. That is an extraordinarily sweeping assault on D.C.’s right to govern itself and an odious insult to the District’s residents.

I am especially disgusted by DoorDash’s public claim that it is somehow defending D.C. residents while actively seeking to strip us of our right to govern ourselves through our own democratically elected lawmakers. Please do not pretend that disenfranchising District residents is an act undertaken on our behalf.

I intend to publicize DoorDash’s attack on home rule as widely as possible and urge everyone I know to boycott the company.

Shame on you.
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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 22/07/2026
The @freedcproject.bsky.social, whose activists packed today's oversight hearing, has launched a flash campaign calling on people to #DeleteDoorDash in response:
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Nicolas Bierne @couplingdmi.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Not everyone knows that there’s more genetic divergence between a mussel and a clam than between a dog and a fish.
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Sami Schalk @drsamischalk.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Police murdered a Black man in the street in Madison WI today. Shot point blank in the head while on the ground, tased, and surrounded by four cops. It looks like an execution. Multiple videos circulating online. Things are about to get very bad here.
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Kathy Gori @kathygori.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Money in politics is sickening and sickens us!
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Brandon Herrera is the GOP nominee for TX-23 (San Antonio suburbs). He has a long history of making lewd and sexually suggestive comments about women and children, which are documented here. Speaker Mike Johnson is campaigning for him and funding his campaign. www.yahoo.com/news/politic...
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GOP Candidate Brandon Herrera Attacked Moms, Made Vulgar Remarks About Children
Texas congressional candidate Brandon Herrera's past comments include sexually explicit attacks on women and crude remarks about motherhood and children. In a January 2023 video post on X, Herrera att...
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
To be clear: As I say in the post, I don't think Trump fired Bondi to prevent sharing NM files. But I do think the NM files can be a politically damaging point of pressure for Blanche in this week's hearing.
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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
what Dinaw Mengestu said, yes. 💯
That report claims to be neutral and objective. It is not neutral. What PEN America fails to understand is that a boycott is a form of dialogue. The writers who boycotted the organization in 2024 wanted change, and they returned when they believed that such change was possible. I insisted and believed that it was, and I argued that the organization would defend free expression equitably and equally. This report makes clear that will not happen.
I am not boycotting PEN America. Like many other writers who have reached out to me, 1 am walking away from it permanently, and I will do everything I can now to help make something better.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Believing that sexual assault is “not that bad” is absolutely a risk factor for committing an act of sexual violence. And why wouldn’t it be? If these men are insisting that it’s perfectly fine sexual behavior, then why would they hold themselves to a standard they don’t believe in?
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Dittie @dittie.sheshed.rocks · 10/07/2026
NM’s AG just accused Trump’s DOJ of stonewalling the Zorro Ranch probe. Letter dated June 30, released Thursday: 130+ days of silence after 6 attempts to get records. Thread on what’s in it A #SheShed 🧵
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Are you sick of winning yet?
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Outbreak of diarrhea-causing parasite grows to more than 1,000 cases
Michigan is experiencing its largest outbreak of a parasitic infection that causes severe diarrhea. Nearly 1,000 people have been diagnosed with cyclospora as of Wednesday, though no deaths have been ...
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Democracy Forward @democracyforward.org · 09/07/2026
The Trump-Vance admin deleted records showing if and when DOGE accessed sensitive data. We will continue to shed light on their attempts to operate in secrecy.
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Federal Investigators Say Certain DOGE Records Were Deleted
A government report claims DOGE didn’t access sensitive systems. It also says the agency deleted records that would show if they had.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
ICE murdered another person.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
"Another caller, who said she was sleeping in her home, said she heard someone say the n-word twice before she heard two or three gunshots."
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Cinnamon Toast Cunt @meri90.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Meta contaminated Cheyenne Wyoming’s wastewater supply with a bacteria with a 31% mortality rate DEATH TO AI
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 08/07/2026
"why didn't she come forward about the rape earlier" Because police don't do anything about rape most of the time, they try women for "false accusations" some additional percentage, and what was she supposed to do, upturn her mental health only for some judge to give him a suspended sentence?
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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 07/07/2026
there's a (if i recall correctly, it's been a while) pretty well known finding in the social science literature that southern european (italy, spain, greece) fund a significant portion of their welfare state by just paying women to stay home and do child/elder care, which i think this shows
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mrsomerton @mrsomerton.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
honestly I’m impressed. even the big shithead lefties (Juniper, Hasan, et al) were like “fuck this guy” say what you want about our side but you will never see this kind of universal condemnation on the other side
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Jeff Norman @jeff2ffs.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Like most modes of injustice, misogyny is best understood systemically rather than as a matter of individual hatred or fear (even though there's plenty of that). Kate Manne notes the horrific and tragic costs of structural misogyny. And it is getting worse.
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Death by Misogyny
You may know many of these statistics. But have you joined the dots?
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reed eliot 🤌 🤌 @reedeliot.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
As a trans anarchist zine publisher, this is meant to frighten me. But I know these bitter fascists will not outlast us. We are too many and we possess long memories.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Famous sayings of Chris Butler, the head of Tulsi Gabbard's Krishna Consciousness Cult, whom she addresses as her "highest guru" and from who she took instructions with an encrypted messaging system while she was serving as DNI.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Mona Khalil, 76, a beloved Lebanese environmental activist and sea turtle conservationist, murdered by IDF forces during an attack on Mansouri beach in Tyre. www.haaretz.com/middle-east-...
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Renowned Lebanese sea turtle conservationist killed by IDF attack near Tyre
Mona Khalil, 76, a Lebanese environmental activist and sea turtle conservationist, died from injuries sustained two weeks earlier in an IDF attack near Mansouri beach, where she had long worked to pro...
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
my actual professional opinion right now is that this has all gotten out of hand and that what we should be focused on is that OUR NATION'S CAPITAL IS UNDER OCCUPATION.
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ville hautakangas @vhautaka.milfmessenger.app · 21/06/2026
This here is basic theory of computation, explained in simple terms. It's first semester stuff for every computer scientist, software engineer, etc. Everyone "working on AI" knows this stuff yet the grift just keeps on going
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
This incarceration of dads “renders thousands of children w/out their father’s care every day, not just on Father’s Day. Detained men’s grief, due to forced separation from their work and from their families, is amplified by the maddening uncertainty of not knowing when or if they will be released.”
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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
If Trump actually ends his War on Iran it will be the single best decision he's made in the conflict, regardless of concessions. He disproved a core belief of the Iran Deal critics, that a better outcome existed through threats and force. Catastrophic failure, bombs cannot secure what diplomacy did.
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Kris Willis @kawillis.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Vincent Ginis has shared a pretty compelling demonstration (at least I think so) that the original result is basically an artifact; you can replicate the "decline" with random citation behavior arxiv.org/abs/2402.14583
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Dataset Artefacts are the Hidden Drivers of the Declining Disruptiveness in Science
Park et al. [1] reported a decline in the disruptiveness of scientific and technological knowledge over time. Their main finding is based on the computation of CD indices, a measure of disruption in c...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Remember this scene the next time a corporate reporter tries to insist that a rural diner full of white men in their 60s is somehow a more authentically "American" place, somehow more representative of who we are as a nation.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 14/06/2026
personally, I’ve become pretty good at saying “Elon Musk has murdered millions of people” whenever he comes up in conversation with a glassy, graveyard-serious look in my eye: experiment with your own ways to drive the point home!
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 29/10/2025
Ah, that's also a typical Cartesian approach! We discuss it a lot here: dx.doi.org/10.1037/rev0...
This characterization of human-likeness is the case only in complex or
dubious ways (e.g., Leivada, Günther, & Dentella, 2024). Also, the concept
of deeper models being more human-like is consistent with the classical
dualist perspective: “The difference between machines and natural objects is
simply one of degree for Descartes[. M]achines are works of nature differing
from other natural objects only by degree of complexity” (Hattab, 2009,
p. 85). 3 As in other m
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