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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"Congress may still have room to respond with a new law, but it can’t just say the court got the Constitution wrong." The hell it can't. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/m...

nytimes.com

Congress Is Supposed to Be More Powerful Than the Supreme Court. Why Isn’t It?

Trump and his allies in the Capitol have revealed a problem that has been developing for decades.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 6h

Imagine how fucking rotted a person's brain has to be to submit a 50,000 line pull request and not perceive that what you are doing is *incredibly* embarrassing and antisocial. A vibecoder can no longer notice they're greeting people by spraying hot dogshit all over the place.

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John M. Gamble @jmgamble.bsky.social · 7h

"The battle to reclaim democracy is going to be a difficult one." The receipt is still in the book. I bought it back in June 2009, and I forgot about it while it stood on the shelf.

Picture of the book An Ordinary Person's Guide To Empire, by Arundhati Roy.

The layout of the book is top third title, middle third a close-up picture of hands bound at the wrists by handcuffs, and the bottom third containing the author's name and the text "From the author of The God of Small Things"

ISBN 089608727-1 for those of you who need that information.

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Here's the thing: most books that are banned don't make the lists that get circulated each #BannedBooksWeek. If you're a book creator and your book gets banned, please respond to this post with your book and its buy link on bookshop.org. That way we can support indies and banned books 💛

bookshop.org

Bookshop.org: Buy books online. Support local bookstores.

A better way to buy books online. Every purchase financially supports local independent bookstores.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 19h

Thys year banned bookes weeke ys also destroyed-to-scan-for-A.I. bookes weeke

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The clearest and most succinct expression I've read of how, beyond the clear fascist rhetoric, the Prairieland prosecutions have terrifyingly expanded federal legal power, beyond the point many feds even wanted to go.

For other activists on the left — and on the right — the Prairieland case has set a dangerous precedent. Cadeddu, the federal defense attorney, told me that the most worrying of all the “terrorist acts” was vandalism. There is no dollar amount set on what sort of damage might qualify as an act of terror. Even throwing a snowball at an ICE vehicle during a protest and scratching the paint or damaging a taillight might qualify. “In theory, if you happen to be on a Signal chat with some people planning a protest, and one of the people at that protest — you don’t even have to know them — throws that snowball, you could be implicated in material support for terrorism, simply for helping to organize,” she says. “That’s the meaning of the case.”

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Benito Cereno @benitocereno.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Okay, since we agree it is basically October, here's what I tell myself you've been waiting for: A new list of recommended streaming horror and horror-adjacent movies for you to watch in time for Halloween -- movies on Netflix, Hulu, Shudder, Amazon Prime, and more boxd.it/XbLjo

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New Screams to Stream for Halloweam 2026

If you’re reading this in October, there's a better than average chance that you might be looking for something spooky to watch this month, so I'm here to help you out with suggestions of good movies ...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2026

this guy sounds like a minor character in legend of the galactic heroes

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Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"But the handicapped need cars!" No, what they need are options in mobility. The tech exists to enable their freedom of independent mobility, but almost always what is lacking is the enabling infrastructure. Bike lanes and quality sidewalks serve everyone.

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rose novick @rosenovick.com · 05/10/2026

don't really like how quickly "ai psychosis" has drifted from referring to actual psychosis to referring to "opinions about ai that i don't like"

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Alex Awoos @alex-awoos-backup.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I feel like more people should be talking about this part

Screenshot from the article that reads, The Stud, San Francisco's oldest gay bar, was only able to have its Meta pages restored because of the bars popularity among gay tech executives with connections to Meta

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Laurie! Live! @laurie-merrell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Spent a delightful morning delivering hard copies of @injusticewatch.org's #CheckYourJudges judicial election guide! You can check out the online version here: 2026retention.injusticewatch.org

A photo of me holding a stack of printed Injustice Watch judicial election guides on Argyle in front of the elevated Red Line station with a big red sign that says Argyle

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Libel @libeltheband.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I remember working in a bookstore in the early 2000s and Anne Coulter’s book defending McCarthy came in. I thought, “That has to be the end of her career - no Republican or conservative wants to re-embrace McCarthy.” I did not realize she was way ahead of the curve.

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Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

You can tour the Uptown Theatre as part of Open House Chicago this year. buff.ly/T4N8a8W

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BOO Bolander @bbolander.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

how has nobody shown me this before? don't i have any real friends? why would you keep it from me like that? six fucking years?! youtube.com/shorts/-dxIq...

youtube.com

Skull Boy Tells a Joke (The Real One)

YouTube video by Tom Schalk

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026

A key component of the Cambridge Analytica outrage was your friends subjecting you to data theft without your consent or knowledge. Facebook is running the same playbook on your text messages. Even if you’re not on Meta properties, they’re ingesting your interactions.

Aten installed Muse on both his iPhone and a Mac mini that he uses to test out various Al agents and tech. It took Meta a single day to begin "helpfully" pitching article ideas based on texts he'd sent to a podcast co-host.
When he asked Muse how it got the information, it said that it read banners from incoming texts. But that's not true, either.
After doing a little digging, Aten says Muse synced 187,000 lines from his Messages database, despite Full Disk Access being Off.

Unless Aten is the most popular person on the face of the planet, I sincerely doubt he'd gotten 187,000 lines of text in roughly 24 hours. What happened is that, without permission, Muse went into the app and downloaded the information.
He had not given Muse permission to access Messages, and full disk access was not enabled. It just went ahead and uploaded those texts anyway.
Muse can take "unexpected actions" indeed.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 03/10/2026

you almost have to admire the effective altruists for coming right out and saying “we feel a keen debt to the criminal who stole the money that provided seed funding for Manifund, which is why we’re hiring her and paying her with some of it instead of returning it to FTX creditors”

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John M. Gamble @jmgamble.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Is it made of a series of tubes?

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

At this point, Trump has done so much damage to Puerto Rico over two terms I'm just waiting for the Navy to draw up live fire exercises for San Juan.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Suella Braverman's book PATRIOT came out today. It's 503 grams, costs £30 and tells the story of one politician's struggle against reality. Mine is currently 99p on kindle. Weighs nothing. Is all about traitors and villains... And people love it. Choices www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0F2FHD18...

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Notorious: History’s Villains and Why They Matter

Notorious: History’s Villains and Why They Matter eBook : English, Otto: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yeah the biggest human trafficking bust in 21st century US history went down in 2021. Operation Blooming Onion. They took down a $200 million slavery ring in Georgia. 100% H2A visa workers who immigrated legally. This was HUGE NEWS for anyone who was paying attention to farm worker & labor issues.

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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

once again, they're telling us what they want to do

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Scare Smith 💀 @evilgalprods.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

this is going to bring Consequences for the production and I, for one, look forward to them

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 01/10/2026

What on earth! It's not even been a year and the quality is worse than it already was. I think I've been scammed. Time to write an angry letter ;)

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Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Since everyone started talking about Yudkowsky last week, I think we should talk about the other person who created contemporary AI discourse: Nick Land. This will be written for a general audience, and for something more substantial I'd recommend @eruditorumpress.com's Neoreaction: A Basilisk

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 01/10/2026

The Yuddite/rationalist primary defense mechanism is spurting out a big ink-cloud of thesaurus and number-laden complete nonsense, and then demanding that you waste your time "debating" them over it. The good news is that this trick is easily defeated by simply refusing to play the Debate Me game.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The US has withdrawn from GRECO, the Council of Europe’s anti-corruption watchdog, which it has been a member of since 2000, ABC reports. Russia and Belarus are the only other countries to have left the group.

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Also, as I’ve reminded people many times before, cat eyes don’t work like human eyes do. Tuned for different wavelengths, different shaped pupils, and different density of receptors on the retina. The laser classifications are for your eyes. Lasers aren’t toys. Never have been. Not even for pets.

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

[Fire Marshal overhears me talking to their deputy about Amazon Bullshit Lasers, pops head out of office] FM: What did you say the power cut off is? Me: 5mW for visible light. Why, you got one too? FM: Yeah, should be fine though. [shines it at wall] Me: [yoinks] I'm afraid I'm the judge of that.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

bluesky does not seem to really be talking about this but today Stevie Wonder unleased 4 songs that didn't make "Songs in the Key of Life." music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Songs In The Key Of Life - The EP

EP • Stevie Wonder

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Alyssa S. @drsepinwall.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Yo!!! I thought this horrifying Alpha School that @benjaminjriley.bsky.social & @annieabrams.bsky.social had been alerting us to was 1 school. It’s 50 and growing… and paid for in Texas by voucher funds. Not just AI but psychological torture and degradation.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“It’s putting a mind virus into a kid’s head, which is what education is. And it’s being done by a teacher you trust.”

theamericanvandal.com

All Our Kids Will Go To Alpha School

On the plans to hyperscale Alpha School’s “AI” tutoring software to “a billion kids.”

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 27/09/2026

another day, another bit of evidence that the scientists who willingly hand over proprietary information to AI firms may experience some consequences

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Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This will shock you, but the Trump administration is lying about the history and origins of Arlington Memorial Bridge. Here's the bigger story: 🗃️

thebirthofacapital.info

Who came up with Memorial Bridge?

The answer should give us pause.

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Eniko Fox @enikofox.com · 27/09/2026

i posted an epiphany i had about why i hate AI so much on fedi and i wanna post it here but it won't fit and i don't wanna cut it down to size so fuckit i'm just posting a screenshot

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OH. right! i get it now!

i get why AI is so depressing to me. because covid already shrunk my world to almost nothing, where almost all of my life revolves around socializing and watching videos on the internet (which is being ruined by AI) and creating creative works through coding (which is being ruined by AI), often using open source tools and libraries (which are being ruined by AI)

i already had so little and now even that is being rotted away before my eyes
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026

I regret to inform you all that Bernie Sanders is in fact taking meetings with noted rationalist wacko Eliezer Yudkowsky over what AI regulations should look like. x.com/SenSanders/s...

Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders
Will Al become smarter than humans?
If so, is humanity in danger?
I went to Silicon Valley to ask some of the leading Al experts that question.
Here's what they had to say:
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The Als are much, much, much more powerful.
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My thanks to Senator Sanders; as to other legislators on all sides of any political aisle, and to any human being on Earth who now stands

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 25/09/2026

Imagine if instead of regulating drone risks the normal way (which we did), we instead paid weird bloggers lots of money to worry about superintelligent dogs sprouting thumbs and using drones to kill us. This is pretty much how the US is approaching AI risks and regulations. My latest:

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Why We Can't Let Enormous Weirdos Regulate AI

Imagine if instead of regulating drones via the standard lengthy, boring, and bureaucratic process - which we did - we instead decided, in the name of fostering all-important American drone innovation...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/09/2026

peter thiel is another one of those guys who we are supposed to think is brilliant but every time he opens his mouth my first thought is “this guy sounds like an idiot”

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

so today I learned that Canadian engineers take a sacred oath written by Rudyard Kipling which is *clearly* worded to bind them as defenders against the fae. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calling...

en.wikipedia.org

Calling of an Engineer - Wikipedia

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Lizard @lizardky.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"And if it isn't capable, you are inferior and deserve to die." That's the underlying message behind all these posts.

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Margaret Harris @drmlharris.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I’m at the Akademie for yngre forskere (the Young Academy of Norway) in Oslo tonight, attending an evening of talks on the timely subject of trust in AI. Highlights to follow… ⚛️🧪

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Lakeshore Drive Slut @shredded-teat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

at the center of the "controversy" over a bar in a place no one will ever, ever go to is the prevailing belief that facing pushback for doing something harmful is worse than doing something harmful. it resonates with so many people who never got over being asked to be decent in 2020

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

THE GATES OF HELL SHALL NOT PREVAIL: A History of American Conservative Evangelicalism in The Last Years of the First Republic (Oxford University Press, 2077)

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

When I tell you this is one of the most riveting, concise and accurate depictions of the catastrophically defective thought processes behind Effective Altruism and the larger Broligarch Epistemic Universe... Run, don't walk, to read the whole thing (link below), which concludes thus:

Example of the problematic thinking behind Effective Altruism.

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