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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Everyone is so tired. Exhausted. And I'm talking to so many friends and colleagues who are hoping for a functional institutional power to come along and take care of them, take the annoying work and worry away. An employer, a publisher, a big funder, an elected leader, etc. I think it's just us.

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Jane Ruffino @janeruffino.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The way that I know I am still Irish-ish is that no matter where I meet an Irish person, we always succeed at the one degree of separation (in this case, a postdoc I met in Turku).

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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ISOC LIVE @isoc.live · 29/09/2026

RECAP/RECORDING - Internet Frontiers: Navigating Data to Inform Public Discourse isoclive.substack.com/p/isoc-pulse... #TribalBroadband @pulse.internetsociety.org @internetsociety.org @techpolicyinst.bsky.social @connecthumanity.bsky.social @manypossibilities.net @janeruffino.bsky.social

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Jane Ruffino @janeruffino.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

25+ years of being part of organizing and leftist spaces and that western mass bar is unlocking some memory vaults 🫠🫠🫠

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Jane Ruffino @janeruffino.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Wait, why did Alex Karp buy 15,000 hectares of Swedish forest up north? Apparently he says it’s “to preserve the beauty” but the first thing he did was end the right to hunt on it. Can’t find any English language sources on it and I’m not sharing anything from Expressen

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 27/09/2026

Some of us in San Francisco first heard of the Network State and related tech cults from Emily Mills. She documented how these ideas had infused our local politics. It sounded odd at first, but her work sparked mine. On Tuesday, we're onstage together in SF. Tix here: semaphore.thd.org/954-2/

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THE TELEGRAPH HILL DWELLERS PRESENTS: GIL DURAN with Emily Mills

Join Telegraph Hill Dwellers for an evening with journalist and author Gil Duran, in conversation with Emily Mills, discussing his new book, The

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Jane Ruffino @janeruffino.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I watched the Lizzie Borden thing and it’s just like…not good? Apparently very little of it aligns with what IS known about her whole context, and that just made it even worse.

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Jane Ruffino @janeruffino.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Input needed: for those who file US taxes and have someone prepare your return, if you don’t earn enough to owe anything, and you don’t have any extra things like investments etc, how long does it take? Like is it reasonable that it shouldn’t take an accountant more than an hour or two?

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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

to be clear, the admin is alleged to have deported AT LEAST 25,447 individuals TO COUNTRIES THAT ARE NOT THEIR OWN with, evidently, ZERO PROTECTIONS. this is a scandal and crime of historic proportions.

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The Deportation Project Map

Between 2025 and August 2026, the Trump administration deported over 25,000 people to countries other than their country of origin. Very few of these removals were publicly announced by the US. The De...

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Jacob Harris @jacobharr.is · 21/09/2026

Typical DOGE person: we need to make the federal workplace more welcoming for high achievers unlike the losers who work for the govt now. Same DOGE person: lasts just 5 months in a federal role despite being given every material advantage and license to disregard laws and processes

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Jane Ruffino @janeruffino.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I wish I could type out all the stuff that’s going on with this shady tax accountant, but there’s no way to do it without me sounding unhinged, and everyone would just yell at me for doing life wrong. The short version is…not good. You should not be afraid of your accountant.

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It’s very simple. A reality TV host became dictator because he turned down a role for Sharknado 4 and that’s why the king of outer space, who cheats at Diablo, got to kill Africa. Now the economy is controlled by a sex cult that has something to do with Harry Potter fanfic because of robots.

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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 20/09/2026

Help i made malware and I used it to hack several enormous companies I guess there's nothing anyone can do until we pass new laws In the meantime I'll let you watch over my shoulder while i do it again and again Also give me more money or I'll hack you all

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This is why it's important to know these are all TESCREAL freaks. They *want* to be building the super intelligent computer that breaks out and takes over. They think that would be cool as shit. Of course they're going to try to engineer that outcome as often as possible.

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Jane Ruffino @janeruffino.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Another Sunday read, a really, really long one that somehow escaped my attention when it was first published. These people are on the fringes, but of the movement trying to tell us AI is inevitable and that they’re the ones who should build it. www.wired.com/story/deliri...

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The Delirious, Violent, Impossible True Story of the Zizians

A handful of gifted young tech people set out to save the world. For years, WIRED has been tracking each twist and turn of their alleged descent into mayhem and death.

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Jane Ruffino @janeruffino.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Finally managed to sit down and read this. It’s a great read, but it’s also perfect for sending to folks who feel like there’s more to it all, but aren’t sure if they’re overreacting (we’re underreacting!!!) www.techpolicy.press/what-policym...

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What Policymakers and the Public Need to Know About the Cult of AI

Nathalie Maréchal asks, why are we betting the economy and the future of democracy on cult-like beliefs?

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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The accounting is in: In Oregon there are 111 data centers. The TOTAL number of people employed at data centers is just 2,630, or 0.1% of the labor force. Those 100 data centers consumer 23% of all electricity used in Oregon. Meanwhile, electricity rates skyrocket as more centers are built.

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Oregon data centers by the numbers: 111 facilities consume nearly one-quarter of state’s power, according to new report

A first-of-its-kind report details the footprint of the controversial facilities.

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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A few weekends ago I went to Miami and attended 9 open houses in extremely high-risk flood areas to see what agents are telling prospective buyers about them. Here is my journey

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The open houses at the edge of disaster

What are buyers being told about climate risk in Miami? I posed as one to find out.

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Karen VH @designinginward.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

hey friends, a little reminder that I'm available for part time freelance UX/product work. Discovery, research, strategy, ops. I have been told I am a goddamn delight to work with and I will make you some amazing custom playlists.

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Based upon their documented behavior over the past few years, the tech industry is less afraid of the potential ramifications of Artificial Superintelligence than they are of Lina Khan.

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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Absolutely horrific: Thanks to a false intelligence "generated with the help of artificial intelligence," the US military nearly carried out an operation aboard a Chinese ship because the incorrect intelligence said it was carrying nukes, according to @cnn.com. edition.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...

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Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics

The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war

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Jane Ruffino @janeruffino.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I keep trying to feel positive, but the election discourse has me crushed. The left party did the work and not only is that being framed as fraudulent, but votes from immigrants are now described as invalid. All this language normalizes stripping us of our right to vote.

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Jane Ruffino @janeruffino.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Fun to watch right wingers crashing out about how the center-left bloc won the Swedish election, basically accusing them of fraud because they let immigrants become naturalized and we haven’t tended to vote for the parties who obsessively trash talk us

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sephirAmy @sephiramy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

how about some good news: new cat just dropped!!!!

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Meet the First New Cat Species Discovered in 100 Years

A small, spotted tiger cat from Bolivia may just be the beginning of a wave of new small cat species.

This 10-year-old male tiger cat is the first of his species (named Leopardus tilcayo) known to science. He is approximately 18 inches from head to end of body and weighs only 3 pounds, making him smaller than the average domestic cat. This video was captured at the Senda Verde Animal Refuge in Bolivia’s Yungas region, where he currently resides.

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Somar Al Naher @somar.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Irak är det vanligaste födelselandet bland utrikes födda Malmöbor. Många flydde Saddam Husseins diktatur. Nu går de och deras barn och röstar – använder den demokratiska rättighet som diktaturen förvägrade dem. Det är alltså diktaturens offer som Kärrholm hånar.

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René Walter @rawx.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"AI models have begun communicating in a strange new version of English that reads like a cross between James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake and tech bro jargon, new research has found."

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Jane Ruffino @janeruffino.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

There’s a massive racist crashing out in my LinkedIn comments and I do not know why people who use terms like “anchor babies” and call kids of immigrant parents “spam” still have jobs

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

When they eventually make a movie about this time, please don't put the male politicians in good suits. IMO, the ugly, low rent tailoring should be part of the story.

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Daniel C. Blight @danielcblight.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

***URGENT PLEASE SHARE*** University of Brighton management have announced today that they ‘give notice of termination of all collective agreements’. This is a fundamental erasure of workers' rights. Management have announced the termination of all contractual documents, which includes:

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Jane Ruffino @janeruffino.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Business idea: the Perimenopause Fridge Boat. It’s like a sauna boat but it’s a cold room where you can float on a lake and complain with other people who need every room to be like 8 degrees Celsius because their bodies stopped making hormones

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Jane Ruffino @janeruffino.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The result is scary but not as scary as we thought. Two immediate thoughts: as long as I live in Sweden you will never get me out of red-green Söderort, and give Skåne to the Danes (except for Malmö and Lund)

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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

it’s important to take breaks from worrying about rising inequality and climate change so you have time to also worry about the fact that we’ve sent so much clutter into space that we’re at constant risk of a chain collision that makes satellite tech unusable for generations

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Jane Ruffino @janeruffino.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I am so glad we made sure to buy in a neighborhood with a pretty good election map. It also helps that I put a little Vänster flag in a vase of flowers in the kitchen window, which I suppose tells people whether to avoid us or come talk shit with us.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Between the PRs of (largely likely stolen) math breakthroughs, claims of "rogue AI" (actually cybercrimes by companies, but whatevs), and doomerist "whistleblowers", it feels like we've been subjected to a gish gallop of hype recently. >>

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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Man being an "AI Safety" person seems like a great con if you can get in on it. Getting paid to write posts with a fucking flashlight under your chin saying "ooh computers could be scary in the future maybe possibly"

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Jane Ruffino @janeruffino.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I think kiddo’s friend must’ve heard her parents talking about the AfD result in Saxony bc she and kiddo now believe “Germans are dangerous”. My partner overheard them while driving, and said, “but Josephine’s been to Germany!” And friend said, shocked, “And you SURVIVED?”

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Jane Ruffino @janeruffino.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Audibly gasped in the supermarket because I didn’t know I need this book. I am so pumped

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Jane Ruffino @janeruffino.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Ok. This has made my day. Who else should be sent? Michael Healy Rae for sure, a couple of Freemen on the Land, who else

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Jane Ruffino @janeruffino.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Is it that nobody is allowed to be upset that our early votes weren’t counted, or is it just that immigrants should remember we don’t have rights, we have revocable privileges? Some rando on LinkedIn is telling me it’s no big deal and I can simply “regret vote” tomorrow. But it is a big deal!

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Jane Ruffino @janeruffino.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I have very mixed feelings about a lot of 9/11 commemoration because it’s all so complicated. In my case, I overslept in Jersey city and did not get the PATH in to WTC to meet friends for breakfast. (I was living in Ireland but was in NY/NJ with friends for a few weeks)

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Jane Ruffino @janeruffino.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Just my luck that my early voting ballot falls into the stupid fucking category where they fucked up the ballots so now I have to go to a special location and wait in a long line on Election Day or the ballot I cast 2 weeks ago won’t be counted

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A. Marmot 🌱 @aminus.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

BREAKING: a whistleblower has just quit company wikiHow, warning that within ten years, advanced wikiHow illustrations may kill us all

wikihow tutorial illustration with a man in baseball cap and pink shirt partially crouching, hands on thighs, and pivoting counterclockwise as shown by red arrows. Caption reads, "how to discretely get your balls unstuck from your thigh"

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 10/09/2026

"Did OpenAI “lose control” of these models? No. OpenAI could turn off these models at any time. Did they “escape”/"break out of their cages”? No.These models are computer programs that were always running on OpenAI’s servers;they did not “escape” or “break out” or move from their original hardware"

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Jane Ruffino @janeruffino.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Another observation from Josephine that she has demanded I “write on the computer” and is equally excellent. She said “I don’t think boys think about what girls are thinking about.” I will be on the floor if anyone needs me

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Jane Ruffino @janeruffino.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

One of the most embarrassing things about my massive panic attack is that my body went into autopilot and I walked out of the house because I was terrified, except…the guy was on the phone and not in the house with me. And these people charge by the minute, so I dread the bill I’ll get for the call.

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