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That’s exactly it. They’re the poor man’s network state

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Oh absolutely, and I also can’t shake a Freemen of the Land association 🫠 which is obviously the opposite (but where both are bad)

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republicans used to complain about the violence in gangster rap and now they want to livestream an execution

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Peter Hellman @hrhellman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Individens rätt till privatliv och privat korrespondens är en grundläggande mänsklig rättighet. Övervaka dem som misstänks för brott – inte alla andra, hela tiden. femtejuli.se/2026/10/06/c...

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Chat Control – håll motståndet levande

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Hear me out, what if everyone dressed up as a data center

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Yep, there are good things happening under the label, but I have a feeling they’ll start moving away from the term. (It’s got a bang of the “sovereign citizen” movement off it, too.)

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Accessibility statement “We are not aware of any parts of this website that are not fully accessible. If you find a part of this website that does not work for you, please contact us using the details below.” Like…I just can’t with it

Of course. But the word is being used as cover for all kinds of things. People have decided that the term “sovereign” means whatever they want it to mean, including things that will take us backward. (And won’t actually be whatever they even argue “sovereign” is).

I also had a big cry this past week about the state of websites lately. I love the web. I love the Internet. It’s a wonder of technical and social collaboration, even with all of its flaws. And a bunch of people are making absolute shit of it. These websites are the ocean garbage patch of the web.

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Raise your hand if the word “sovereign” now makes your skin scrawl

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I feel this exact thing all day long

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It’s such sad beige and I hate it. We’ve been working on a new design pattern library and at one point we accidentally made something that looked a tiny bit Claude-scented and immediately changed course. I sincerely think the fact that our web stuff is made by humans is an important part of trust

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This was such a good discussion! Thank you for it!!

We have a loooooong drive coming up in a few weeks and this feels like the perfect way to torment my family!!!!

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I have thought long and hard about whether “clanker” is an unacceptable slur, and have concluded that — given that 1) this Discourse hinges on the ludicrous notion that chatbots might have feelings, and that 2) Andor rules — that is nonsense. Not today, clanker ❌🤖

A selfie of me wearing a blue “not today, clanker” t-shirt

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This reminds me of a recent conversation I had with @alexhanna.bsky.social about AI and workers, in which Hanna noted that bosses tend to think most feminized work can be automated because they imagine the work as reduced to the task itself and forget the necessary relational aspects.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

No, but really, outsourcing our own moral discernment to the talking word toaster is not reasonable or ultimately positive for humans so it’s okay. It is a machine. There’s no mortality to it being used as a machine. You don’t remote lock a guy for cussing out his tractor. What are we doing here?

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Notable that Anthropic is more interested in protecting Claude from humans than humans from Claude.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Anthropic is out with new nonsense about Claude (or the collection of models called Claude) deserving moral consideration and/or be able to feel distress, so my inbox is filling up with journos asking me to comment. I've also got a day job, so here is a brief set of public comments on this: >>

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

our colleagues from the tech workers union are hosting a two day summit this weekend. I can guarantee you it'll will be much more informative and real than the actual government summit we have a line-up of stellar speakers. join us tomorrow and Sunday www.datacwu.ie/ai-counter-s...

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

Just a word of warning: if you teach your kid not to be a snitch, they will NOT give you gossip

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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The French police are so militarized they blew up a 15-yr-old’s hand and took the eye of another one. Why are grenades being used to quell student protestors who are unarmed? Now the labour unions are stepping in to protect the students

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The guy sneering at "your precious liberal arts degree" majored in Philosophy at Harvard

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Jane Ruffino @janeruffino.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

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Jane Ruffino @janeruffino.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Folks in the PNW, please share this. This is my friend’s son, and he’s been missing for a week from Everett, WA. Help bring Kai home to his loving family. www.facebook.com/share/p/1DqE...

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She has so much integrity 💕💕💕

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It’s definitely going in my “happy thoughts” bank

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But it demonstrates that she’s now more powerful than him!

I hope she gets to play on its smoldering ashes! And ok, maybe he can’t feel shame, but he probably wouldn’t have ended his presidential run so early otherwise…

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I absolutely worship her, and knowing that the shameless architect of much of Ireland’s misery during the late 2000s up to now is roasted as a corrupt fucker in a v emotional song brings me boundless joy That man doesn’t deserve a moment of peace in his life, ever and she deserves the earth

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If there is, as I suspect, a sign behind the bar at Fagan’s saying “NO CMAT” I desperately want a photo of it

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This wasn’t the work of an Etsy witch, a very powerful auntie prayed for this at Knock

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Jane Ruffino @janeruffino.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I love that the more famous CMAT gets, the wider the blast radius gets for Bertie Ahern’s roasting. It also helps that he definitely cares about this. I hope witnessing entire arenas singing his name pejoratively makes him feel the first shame of his life

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“Hyperscale is a choice and not the default” is such a fantastic framing—thank you!!

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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

It’s true! I see it happen regionally in Sweden (like when we meet someone whose family is also from the far north) but it’s pretty special for it to apply to a whole country

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

I also think it’s fun that I’m now old enough to start looking forward to when it goes from “I know your sister” to “I know yer ma”

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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 · 28/09/2026

This gave me a literal belly laugh, no lies detected

There was an enormous meltdown of a huge online feminist group about 10 years ago, where i stupidly tried to say “hey that’s not what happened” and some much more prominent feminists became like…I’ve just never seen anything like this level of delusional, entitled rage

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

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It’s also like…most of the Swedish forest is commercial plantation. Yes, it’s pretty! And I’m glad we get to use it! But it’s not like, some primeval woodland. Which I guess is good because whatever he’s up to can’t be good, and at least it’s not a waste of good woodland

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 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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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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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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