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Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo put her vision for the city like this: "A city where you can get let go of your child's hand"

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Update on this: ICE took down these reviews, which they initially posted. The site where they were now just says "not found." But @prospect.org downloaded the files when they were first available, and you can read them at our story.

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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Zero surprises here: www.instagram.com/p/Dd4peLpEpF...

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Nadia Oxford @nadiaoxford.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

What boring and weaselly people don’t want you to know about living in cities is that there’s a very small chance you’ll meet someone who wishes you harm because you’re not the right race/creed/whatever, but there’s a much greater chance you’re going to meet Hussein.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Even hotter take: the fact that ebikes let teens in the suburbs suddenly have freedom to move around the public realm unsupervised is precisely why many older people are trying to ban them (using safety as a pretext)

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Kevin Riggle @kevinr.free-dissociation.com · 29/09/2026

Hmm, bunch of OpenSSL timing side-channel attacks just got fixed in Ubuntu 22.04-26.04. Might be time to take your package updates if that's a thing you use.

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Chris Palmer @fugueish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Captain ACAB Collectively tracking the hidden costs of law enforcement $417,226,529.79 in CA settlements 294 cases 11 CA municipalities" captainacab.com

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Captain ACAB -- CA settlements from law enforcement.

Tracking the hidden costs of law enforcement in the United States. $1,563,000.00 in CA settlements and counting.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Look having the entire roster of FBI agents leak isn't a front-page newsworthy security failure meriting front page coverage the same way having some of your emails to Anthony Weiner's wife be discovered on Anthony Weiner's laptop was

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

the only rule is that if you're in their little club, you can do whatever you want to. that's why guys like brand rush to join when they get in trouble bsky.app/profile/russ...

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

they like rape and rapists, is the thing.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

like I hope it's obvious by now that all the "MeToo went too far!" bleating is because it got rapists in trouble and they don't think rapists should get in trouble.

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Doll @dollspace.gay · 19/09/2026

The sane package Regulate uses and failures before regulating models. Make the legally relevant event something observable

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 28/09/2026

All it took was getting kicked out of the White House press room and suddenly CNN remembers that "lie" is a word.

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Greg Shill @gregshill.com · 28/09/2026

Notably, travel times also did not increase outside the congestion zone. This mirrors what we have seen in other aggregate congestion pricing impacts. For example, it was predicted that drivers would change their routes to avoid the zone, creating new congestion; this, too, did not happen.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The main reason you haven’t heard about campus sexual violence in a few years is because Trump and SCOTUS have made it much, much harder for survivors to come forward. You might vaguely remember that Title IX was a big battleground in his first term. And that we lost.

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Matt Weiner @mattweiner19.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

To self-promote, I think high-decoupling is terrible. It means falling for blatant figleaves and ignoring blatant dogwhistles. The example there imagines Sam Harris saying that his beliefs about intelligence weren't racist because he said they aren't about race. It is an invitation to be a mark.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

its part of the reason younger dems like aoc and maxwell frost and others are so much more hard edged vs the gop than establishment dems. when aoc was 14, bush invaded iraq. for her entire life she's seen gop going buck wild and then try to tear down a dem president. they know its war

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Signal News & Tips @aboutsignal.com · 17/09/2026

New Signal update for Android (8.28) 🎉 - Signal Login: optional registration method allowing users to create a Signal account without providing a phone number - Improved sticker pack management 👉 aboutsignal.com/releases/sig... #signal #signalapp #signalmessenger #aboutsignal #news #android #tech

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Signal Android Releases - What's new?

Explore the latest Signal Android app updates and changes. Stay up to date with new features and version history.

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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

talking about water use policy is impossible because "AI data centers use a lot of water to cool the computers" sounds way more believable than "they're draining the Great Salt Lake so the Governor of Utah can sell alfalfa to Saudi Arabia" and yet

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Cliff PervoSCARY @pervocracy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

this is a great example of Trump's team's approach to achieving fascism by re-enacting the media signifiers of fascism, which they learned from movies about why fascism is bad

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Jeff Hodges @jmhodges.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Just edited a sentence from "everyone says" to "people say" and when I deleted the "s" in "says", I felt sympathy for the folks learning English as an adult

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Jeff Hodges @jmhodges.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

For a while, I thought it was just me and my partner who'd say something about feldspars when one of us was assuming people would understand something we knew about. It's nice to see a useful meme having legs xkcd.com/2501/

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The GOP cut funding to the IRS because *audits work* and they fundamentally don't believe rich people should have to play by the rules.

Line chart titled "Revenue per audit," subtitled "In-person audits, 2010-2014." It plots average revenue and average cost per audit by taxpayer income percentile, poorer to richer, from the 0–5th percentile to the top 0.1%. Source: Boning et al. 2023, "A Welfare Analysis of Tax Audits Across the Income Distribution."

Across the bottom half of the income distribution, revenue and cost track closely, both around $3,000–$6,000 per audit. Above the median, revenue pulls ahead of cost: about $10,000 vs. $5,000 near the 90th percentile, and about $17,000 vs. $8,000 at the 95th–99th. At the top, revenue jumps to about $31,000 for the 99–99.9th percentile and about $90,000 for the top 0.1%.

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Jill Twiss @jilltwiss.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Sign me up for "Secretary of Just Taking a Sledgehammer To Whatever The Last Guy Put Up" in the next administration

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ActivistChecklist.org @activistchecklist.org · 27/09/2026

Good news. Makes it possible for you to delete the signal app and reinstall it (when crossing a border or doing higher risk activism) and just save your recovery key somewhere very safe.

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Sam Alcorn @samalcorn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Is your goal reducing carbon emissions? Legalize apartments. Is your goal advancing social justice? Legalize apartments. Is your goal reducing segregation? Legalize apartments. Is your goal reducing housing costs? Legalize apartments.

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Jeff Hodges @jmhodges.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I think my continued use of "PEBKAC" pegs me as an elder in the softwae world

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 26/09/2026

Trump fucked up the *American* renewable transition but he might have had the largest positive effect on the global transition of any president ever

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 26/09/2026

a tremendously large de facto carbon tax on the entire planet and he’s also eating the resulting political backlash AND with him being a drill baby drill guy the obvious and natural reaction is to double down on renewable deployment. it’s almost perfect lmao

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California YIMBY @cayimby.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A fire-gutted Geary Boulevard restaurant is becoming 89 condos under new "Family Zoning" rules - a process that took months, compared to the six years a nearby senior housing project needed in the 2000s. www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/h...

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

nithya is likely going to win because she is assembling a broad cross-ideological coalition of people who actually *care* about making LA better instead of another four years of incompetence and decline donate to @nithyaforthecity.bsky.social here: secure.actblue.com/donate/nithy...

Raman takes the lead
Whom L.A. likely voters support for mayor
Karen Bass
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

it’s genuinely fascinating how establishment democratic politics in big cities has become so ossified and incompetent that they’ve created a huge lane for the left to embrace good government reforms and build a broad coalition of socialists and technocrats

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Jeff Hodges @jmhodges.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Totally not late to an all-hands meeting and again loving how MUNI under Market has working cell networks now

Me, smiling in a green corduroy MUNI hat

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

even in states that dems *don't* fully control, dem governors in Kentucky, Louisiana, Kansas, Wisconsin and Arizona have vetoed anti-trans legislation sent to them by Republican legislatures

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Brad Ewing @bradleyewing.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Once you see how many local press outlets put their thumb on the scale for anti-housing coverage, you can't unsee it. Housing opponents flood the zone with arguments that are not grounded in data, and reporters and editors take these claims at face value.

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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 24/09/2026

Yes. I think the consensus among US elite pundits and senior politicians that the way to protect liberal democracy is *not* to punish elite figures who violate its rules is wrong. A norm starting at least with the Watergate pardon. The opposite is true. You need to enforce the law and Constitution.

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Alana Kinrich @alanakinrich.medsky.social · 24/09/2026

Tonight's neighborhood NIMBY tried to physically push me out of a public event for the crime of "having a baby playing happily in the back." These people drive me up the wall.

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is a common lie from DHS press flacks. They claim that people who came through CBP One — who registered for an appointment through a government app, went to a port of entry, and were issued a grant of humanitarian parole by a CBP officer letting them enter — "entered illegally." Total nonsense.

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Alfred Twu @alfredtwu.com · 23/09/2026

Bay area: vote yes on RTM, and remind everyone you know to vote yes on RTM

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026

Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵

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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 22/09/2026

Amazing. Also--you never know what will make an impact, no matter how small it seems.

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 22/09/2026

like 20% of these dems are lying for decorum’s sake

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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Evelyn Normielib is officially the median Democrat

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Miro Haller @mirohaller.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

While this attack is currently too expensive to run against the still widely used 2048-bit RSA, the bit security of those applications is lower than you'd expect from factoring: 2048-bit RSA has 90 bits of security in this threat model, and that projection likely overestimates the attack cost.

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Miro Haller @mirohaller.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

We finally finished the universal signature forgery for 1024-bit RSA! 2^32 oracle queries, 1200 core years precomputation, 180 core years for an individual forgery, and 3 years of human labor (no AI involved) by Laura, Adam, Nadia, Emmanuel and me to pull of this computation against real HSMs.

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Luis Villa @lu.is · 21/09/2026

That said California absolutely needs to be quickly figuring out how to build a regulatory system that can distinguish between Waymo and Tesla. electrek.co/2026/09/01/t...

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Tracking the fatal Tesla Autopilot and FSD crashes hidden in its data

Tesla redacts nearly every crash it reports to NHTSA. We're matching those hidden reports to real fatal crashes — a running Electrek investigation.

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