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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a lot of "oh dear" to go around in the results of this very thorough Pew study on the issues with synthetic samples, but this strikes me as particularly "oh dear" www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/20...

AI polling results can lean on racial or partisan stereotypes

In many cases, our AI poll took beliefs or attitudes that are reasonably common among a particular subgroup and portrayed them as nearly ubiquitous. For example, our AI poll would indicate that:

97% of Hispanic adults are at least somewhat likely to follow the World Cup (while the actual share is 43%).

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026

🔇🔇🔇 I want to announce a @dairinstitute.bsky.social virtual event concerning the ***REAL**** impacts of "AI" on the most vulnerable of populations, refugees. Everything you see is first experimented on them.🧵 ⏰ October 1 at 6-8pm CET/9am PDT on Zoom. ✴️ Register at us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

flyer for DAIR virtual event on October 1, 2026 from 6-8PM CET. Join DAIR as we commemorate the 2013 Lampedusa tragedy and ask, "What would it take for technology to protect people on the move, rather than deepen the risks they already face?

Meron Estefanos, Dr. Selam Kidane, Dr. Omer Shatz, Dr. Hyab Yoahnnes

Register at https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/5517888860006/WN_u2VZxx2RSciVPe2wu039wA#/registration

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

"The work and everyday labor of living with ME/CFS contains this recursive loop of everyday labor of being ill." For @motherjones.com, I interviewed @elimrogers.bsky.social on her book tracing the history of ME/CFS and what it's like to be exhausted in America. www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...

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The relentless work of being sick

A new book examines the labor of getting chronic illness diagnosed and treated—for those lucky enough to get care.

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Shiromi Arserio @shiromispeaks.com · 02/09/2026

Happy release to this beautiful book of short stories. If you're looking for speculative stories that will touch you deep inside and make you think, this is one I highly recommend. Thanks and @blackstonepub.bsky.social for casting me. Thanks meghana Mysore for your beautiful words. #narrator

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 06/08/2026

Fantastic news! The FDA has approved the first mRNA flu vaccine. Using mRNA technology will make it easier to update each season’s flu vaccine to keep up with new variants.

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F.D.A. Approves Moderna’s mRNA Flu Vaccine (Gift Article)

The agency had initially refused to even review the application but reversed course after a public outcry.

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La Repubblica @mm-repubblica-bot.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Stati Uniti, il Senato dichiara Fauci colpevole di oltraggio al congresso www.repubblica.it/esteri/2026/08/06…

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

One of most heartbreaking things about Hank Green turning to LLMs is that he gets to do science communication full-time to a massive audience and is well-resourced. He doesn't need to cut corners or outsource his thinking. Meanwhile, there are so many people doing amazing work with zero resources.

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NPR @npr.org · 23/04/2026

Just in: The cuts follow losses in two pivotal court cases and the company's push to invest in artificial intelligence.

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Meta will lay off 10% of its staff

The cuts follow losses in two pivotal court cases and the company's push to invest in artificial intelligence.

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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 08/04/2026

i apparently have to also add "medieval history" to this caveat, given the avignon papacy attacks on the pope and "feudal" invocations in birthright citizenship

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Jean, em dash enthusiast @jburkespraker.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

But he is the guy to follow to understand the Avignon Papacy lolsob

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 28/03/2026

We’re building the Manhattan-side bike lane and pedestrian entrance to the Brooklyn Bridge in time for the World Cup. New Yorkers deserve to enjoy the game on their feet, on their bikes, and with ease.

Mayor Mamdani, NYC DOT Commissioner Flynn, and others stand at a podium with the Brooklyn Bridge in the background.

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Forbes @forbes.com · 24/03/2026

The lawsuit concerned allegations that Meta covered up its platforms’ impact on children's mental health and its knowledge of child exploitation online.

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Meta Must Pay $375 Million Over Allegedly Enabling Child Exploitation

The lawsuit concerned allegations that Meta covered up its platforms’ impact on children's mental health and its knowledge of child exploitation online.

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 25/03/2026

PSA for anyone who may have missed it: Bluesky's ATmosphere conference is this weekend, there is a remote attendance option, and there's a whole media/journalism/creators track! atmosphereconf.org#schedule

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ATmosphereConf 2026

ATmosphereConf is the global atproto community conference. Join us in Vancouver, Canada, March 26th - 29th, 2026.

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Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

A couple months ago the @nytimes.com asked me to review a book for them. It turned out to be one of the worst books I've ever read in my life. Today, they published my review: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/b...

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Data Centers in Space? Faster-Than-Light Spaceships? Big Dreams Abound.

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Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · 23/03/2026

Again I would like to reiterate, as something of an expert on the man and his work: there is actually nothing funnier or less film-literate than accusing someone of *ripping off Quentin Tarantino*

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

The Affordable Care Act turned 16 today. Because enhanced ACA tax credits expired, more chronically ill and disabled contractors have foregone health insurance this year. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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For many contractors, losing ACA subsidies means losing health care

The GOP's unprecedented premium hikes put chronically ill workers—especially freelancers—in peril.

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Jean, em dash enthusiast @jburkespraker.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

TIL that Nilay Patel is a copyright lawyer. 👏 I kept shouting at my phone: “Get him, Nilay! Draggg him!” As someone who loves how Grammarly follows me across apps, including ones w/o spellcheck like Monday, I am incandescent with rage about how they implemented this. Must-listen episode.

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Confronting the CEO of the AI company that impersonated me

Podcast Episode · Decoder with Nilay Patel · March 23 · 1h 16m

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H-Net Job Guide @h-net-job-guide.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

New job: Historian A – Religious Liberty Colonial Williamsburg Foundation jobs.h-net.org/jobs/69899

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H-Net Job Guide @h-net-job-guide.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

New job: Senior Historian Colonial Williamsburg Foundation jobs.h-net.org/jobs/69898

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Alright I sent stickers to the printer. Each squid and ink blob will be their own die cut sticker. It’s gonna be cute. They should be here in a couple of days. I made them for the streets of my fair city but I put some up on the squid facts shop too SquidFacts.net

Three juvenile glass squid, one in green with yellow spots one in blue with orange spots and one pink with blue spots, each of which have a little yellow bar in the middle of their mantles are suspended in the air in this little doodle. Each of them has an ink blob below them that says get squid Facts text 1833 sci text and then my handle sarahmackattack

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Brandon D. Wilson @geniusbastard.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

FIRST WOMAN TO EVER WIN BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY. FIRST BLACK PERSON TO WIN BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY. FIRST FILIPINA TO WIN BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY. ACADEMY AWARD WINNER AUTUMN DURALD ARKAPAW.

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JK @miniver.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Container ship stuck in the Suez Canal in 2021

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Joe Adalian @tvmojoe.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Folks, I regret to inform you: This design was OK'd by the Citizens Coin Advisory Committee in...October 2024. Its design was set in place when Biden was in office. The designer left out the olive branch to symbolize the colonists' not yet achieving peace, but hoping for it. Trump didn't do this.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Breaking: the DOGE deposition videos have been taken off YouTube. On Friday the government asked a judge to intervene, said the videos could cause reputational damage, death threats. Judge agreed, ordered them removed: www.404media.co/doge-deposit...

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DOGE Deposition Videos Taken Down After Judge Order and Widespread Mockery

The government asked a judge to stop the spread of the videos on YouTube. The judge agreed, and ordered their immediate removal.

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Jean, em dash enthusiast @jburkespraker.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

For the 6th anniversary of the WHO’s covid emergency declaration, I talk about one of my favorite books of 2025: The Pretenders by Avtar Singh “the pandemic novel we’ve all been waiting for.” youtu.be/OaiStvS5u00?si…

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And I would read 500 more: The Pretenders by Avtar Singh

YouTube video by Jean Burke-Spraker

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

if I see a "buy/read my book" post by someone I know, or by someone I don't know but reposted by someone whose opinion I trust, I will pretty much always reshare it and i think more people should do the same tbh

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

MY LATEST: The SAVE America Act won't save Trump was just sent out to Democracy Docket members. Sign-up today to access premium content and support independent, pro-democracy news, information and analysis. bit.ly/4qmEiFz

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 07/03/2026

So… I've been writing for about 18 years on the idea that if you somehow manage to make meaningfully conscious machine minds & then you treat them as tools, then you're enslaving those minds, and that's pretty messed up. And this ties into something else I've re-upped recently: LLMs can't say "No."

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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

My brother, we had to explain a 1/3 pound burger was bigger than a quarter pound burger and still failed

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Jean, em dash enthusiast @jburkespraker.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

“Magic 8 ball frequency algorithm” is so perfect. I say it’s a slot machine for words, but everyone yells at me when I say that. I like this better.

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tante @tante.cc · 04/03/2026

A quick note on that new "AI declaration", which is mostly just a bit clueless but which also assembled some of the most vile people on the planet for a bunch of scientists and activists to put there name next to. tante.cc/2026/03/05/nothing-to-decl…

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Never received a.

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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 04/03/2026

Senator John Fetterman’s response to @premthakker.bsky.social when asked about the illegal US strike on an Iranian Naval ship in international waters: “I want to offer condolences to your boss [Mehdi]. I know he’s all broke up about the Ayatollah.”

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 03/03/2026

Again: Not hyperbole, misinterpretation, or a joke that Christian Dominionism is a strain of apocalyptic accelerationism which VERY LITERALLY SEEKS to hasten their vision of the Biblical end of the world, & the people who believe this have VERY CAREFULLY worked their way into the halls of U.S. power

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Military leaders pushing 'Armageddon views' on troops as Iran war begins: complaint

A combat-unit commander told non-commissioned officers Monday that the Iran war was part of God's plan to usher in the End Times and bring about Jesus Christ's second coming, according to a complaint ...

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 03/03/2026

Repost far and wide if this happens.

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

For years on my old blog I published the names of servicemembers who died in Iraq & Afghanistan. No other outlets were. These are the first 4 Americans to die in the Iran War. Capt. Cody A. Khork, 35 Sgt. 1st Class Noah L. Tietjens, 42 Sgt. 1st Class Nicole M. Amor, 39 Sgt. Declan J. Coady, 20

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

My newsletter tomorrow will explain how Donald Trump is trying to gain access to your sensitive data and information to take over voting in the 2026 midterms. Subscribe to Democracy Docket now to receive. bit.ly/4qmEiFz

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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

A doctor whose career ended after getting the virus says long Covid patients are being forgotten 6 years on there are "hundreds of thousands of people" in the UK with significant long Covid who could not work and were "not acknowledged," she says www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Blyth ex-GP says long Covid patients are being forgotten

The NHS in the North East and Cumbria is closing its last dedicated long Covid clinics this month.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Imagine being so bad at everything you turn Anthropic into the sympathetic figure, absolutely historic buttfumble artists

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

if you believe in any form of free enterprise at all, the idea that the Pentagon can not only cut off your contract but designate you a supply chain risk and prevent other companies from buying from you just because you won't build killbots for the government should be terrifying

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

official status designation fopr the US mens hockey team has dropped

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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.blacksky.app · 24/02/2026

When you realize that Warner Brothers said "Delete that shit" and the BBC chose to keep it...baby this is why I'm not debating nothing about modern racism. Full grown adults made a lot of choices

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Jon Geeting @jongeeting.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

I wrote for @thephilacitizen.bsky.social about how uncompetitive the Philly committee person elections really are. Don’t be afraid to just go for it!

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