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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 47m

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Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 7h

Sr. Producer/Editor – “Preditor” (Social Media/Short Form)
National Geographic

Washington, DC

$139,200 - $186,600 a year

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 9h

“I am the house.” - Sept 8 “I can’t control the bond market.” - Oct 3 @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 14h

“We tried nothing and it didn’t work.”—Drexel

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yaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 14h

solidarity among rapists is lowkey the only force of social cohesion more powerful than rich people class consciousness

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 19h

I have absolutely wondered about this. Amazing.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 29/09/2026

SCOTUS’s shadow docket strikes again. Third-country removals are back on, using a policy that two federal courts have now ruled is unlawful.

CORDER LIST: 609 U.S.)
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2026
26-426
(26A406)
CERTIORARI GRANTED
DEPT. OF HOMELAND SEC., ET AL. V. D.V.D., ET AL.
The application for stay presented to Justice Jackson and
by her referred to the Court is granted. The February 25, 2026 order and judgment of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, case No. 1:25-cv-10676, are stayed.
The application is also treated as a petition for a writ of certiorari, and the petition is granted. The parties are directed to brief and argue the following questions: (1) Whether the district court had jurisdiction over Respondents' claims.
(2) Whether the
district court had
authority to enter classwide
declaratory
relief
and APA vacatur under 8 U. S. C. §1252 (f) (1).
(3) Whether the Government's Guidance on third-country removals
is unlawful under 8 U. S. C. §1231(b), the Due Process Clause, or
FARRA/CAT and its
implementing regulations. (4) Such other
questions that the Government determines are appropriate for the
proper disposition of the case. The Clerk is directed to
establish a briefing schedule that will allow the case to be
argued in the December 2026 argument session. The stay shall
terminate upon the sending down of the judgment of this Court.
Justice Sotomayor, Justice Kagan, and Justice Jackson would
deny the application for stay.

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Mark to Markov Chain @jmsl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

What we wanted “what if the internet was a better version of real life?” What we got instead “what if the internet was literally a lever providing mechanical advantage to our worst impulses as humans?”

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Ken Shirriff @righto.com · 26/09/2026

How do computers calculate complicated trig functions such as tangent? I took a look at Intel's 8087 floating-point chip under the microscope to find out. The chip combines two techniques to evaluate the tan function quickly and accurately: polynomials and an algorithm called CORDIC...

A die photo of the 8087 chip under a microscope shows complex patterns from its transistors and wiring. The middle of the chip holds the microcode ROM, while the bottom half of the chip is the datapath that performs calculations. Zooming in on the datapath shows various functional blocks, which appear as rectangles with different textures. Important functional blocks are labeled: exponent ROM, constant ROM, shifter, adder, registers, and so forth.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Distress tolerance is important, which is why I hire a team of clowns to follow me at all times and constantly annoy me with their clown bullshit

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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Not everybody knows this, and everybody should. On Sept. 26, 1983, a Soviet nuclear warning system alerted Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov that the U.S. had launched a missile attack. He did not retaliate, preventing WWIII. This is a post about AI. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanisl...

en.wikipedia.org

Stanislav Petrov - Wikipedia

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026

Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all

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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

SCOOP: Top researchers at Columbia, Stanford, and others thought they were elected to elite scientific societies alongside Nobel laureates. The catch? The organizations are a sham. I spent the last month diving deep into a massive academic scam spanning continents, for @nature.com

nature.com

Exclusive: Sham scientific societies are misleading star researchers

A Nature investigation reveals a network of organizations that have been building their ranks through deceptive practices.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I can't wait to hear Matty Taibbi wail about censorship.

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Maryn McKenna @marynmck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fake. USDA. Seals. Used by an NC meat processing plant on 83.5 TONS of meat. Produced entirely outside the federal inspection system, according to news reports. We are pretty close to The Jungle (second ed.) now, no? www.scrippsnews.com/life/recalls...

scrippsnews.com

Interactive: Meat recall linked to fake USDA labels

Pork, beef and goat products are being recalled after a company allegedly used fake USDA inspection labels. Explore our interactive guide to see which products are affected and what to look for.

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Timothy Weir @tgweir.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Happy 120th birthday, Dimitri Shostakovich (1906-1975). The world-renowned composer of the Soviet Union was 11 at the time of the Russian revolution and spent much of his life composing music under Stalin’s rule. His music could be intense, rhythmic, witty, and tender by turns.

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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

cowcore

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 25/09/2026

as I noted this week at the newsletter, the media's horniness for unrealistic and anthropomorphized AI doomsday scenarios helps it avoid discussing other issues media ownership doesn't want to discuss like climate change, fascism, rampant corruption, and the disintegration of corporate oversight

karlbode.com

Lazy Journalism At The 'End Of The World'

U.S. corporate media long ago gave up on accurately describing material reality.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 25/09/2026

Last Peach Of Summer Quietly Molds Over On Counter

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 25/09/2026

Two thing can be true. The WH kicking out media it doesn’t like is absolutely a First Amendment violation. And There is little journalism of value to be found in the highly controlled, substance-free halls of power—wall-to-wall navel-gazing about one’s access probably being of the least value.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Scoop: Meta's Muse AI can make phone calls. Internally, Meta has told employees that many of these calls will be made by human beings in a call center: www.404media.co/meta-tests-m...

404media.co

Meta Tests Muse AI Agent Calls That Are Actually Made By Humans in a Call Center

"This has potential for so much negative PR. It could portray us as ‘their AI is not good enough so they still need humans’ kind of coverage for this launch."

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Koen Sebregts @dorsalstop.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"Instead of researchers being questioned about their companies’ habit of plagiarizing academics’ work or using customer data to train models without consent, the public’s imagination is redirected to fears about what the future might hold upon the arrival of fictional superintelligent machines."

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Carrie Stewart @carriejay.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

'Describing them as “superintelligence” or “rogue models” ascribes agency to products rather than to the companies building them.'

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Lia @liasae.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Okay if those fuckos can't sandbox a computer program properly I definitely do not trust them to be even remotely responsible with basic lab discipline. Hope they hose themselves in a hilarious "Sand Won't Save You This Time"-type way before they can do any real damage

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

plausible deniability machine goes whirrrrrrr

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Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Nice to see this getting some attention. It's completely true, and I dearly wish more journalists understood where these common narratives about AI actually come from.

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 19/09/2026

It should be illegal to buy a company with debt and then sell it off to a foreign owner, but that fight was lost long ago. Anyway, now the Saudis own a truly distressing portion of American entertainment, from Hollywood to Video Games to Sports. This is not neutral behavior. Anyway.

arstechnica.com

FCC lets Paramount sell 49.5% equity stake to Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Qatar

FCC rejects concerns about repressive governments buying influence over CBS owner.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 19/09/2026

It’s people - not AI systems - who are choosing to murder civilians with small drones at ever escalating rates around the world, as I recently wrote about with Yale’s Nathaniel Raymond for @foreignpolicy.com:

foreignpolicy.com

Civilians Need Better Protections in the Drone Age

Hunting noncombatants from the sky is growing disturbingly common.

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value plus discounted @akhilrao.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

people are going to be sampling from the watermarking distributions before too long. wonder how fast you need to rotate distributions

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

"Steve Bannon was the CEO of a company that did RMT for World of Warcraft gold back in the 2000s which introduced him to the neckbeard gamer community and he realized he could harness it for nefarious ends and that eventually became Gamergate" is a flashbang moment for a lot of people

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

When ICE abandoned the warehouse project, it always said it might try to use *some* of them for smaller detention centers, even though it was no longer planning to convert multiple warehouses into the largest jails in the country. Now it looks like that caveat is being put into action.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 28/08/2026

Looks like we’re using Gitmo to imprison immigrants again. This is an ICE charter airline owned by ICE’s flight broker using the callsign they use for all their ICE flights.

An FR24 map showing N411ZW going from Miami to Gitmo.

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John Carl Baker @johncarlbaker.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

This is a machine to ethnically cleanse the country - and anyone who pretends otherwise is kidding themselves

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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Google wants to buy and permanently destroy even more wetlands than they already have here in my city but great news, "a public hearing will be conducted virtually on August 25 via Microsoft Teams" which is the peak of democracy, if you really think about it

wane.com

Google data center developer applies for more land, public hearing to be held

In a public hearing notice released on Tuesday, it was announced that the developer of the Google Data Center, Hatchworks LLC, has applied to fill an additional 2.13 acres of forested, Class II iso…

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Michael Cruickshank @cruickshank.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Sentinel-2 timelapse showing the Gyirong Port (古隆口岸) border crossing area between Nepal and China. The buildings of the border crossing, bridges and downstream villages have all completely disappeared.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

“.. When asked later if JPMorgan sat on red flags in Epstein’s accounts, including the withdrawals, for years, Staley responded, “Seems like it.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

this is all fascinating but I think this is the most interesting thing: you get some extremely screwy incentive behavior if the agent believes it cannot legitimately achieve its goal

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Giacomo Cavalieri @giacomocavalieri.me · 23/07/2026

I’ve set up my thermal printer to print me a little puzzle each morning, now this is some daily games I can get behind

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~Tilda is short for It's Decoratilda Gourd Season, Motherf***ers @hulcricket.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

[looks up from working on old repurposed medical particle accelerator] yeah that tracks

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Adolfo Neto @adolfoneto.elixiremfoco.com · 23/07/2026

Reminder: HuggingFace is as unethical as OpenAI and Anthropic xcancel.com/i/status/207...

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Ray Vallese @rayvallese.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

There are ways to trim your videogame development budget, and then there are *ways* to trim your videogame development budget.

Screenshot from the videogame Grey Skies. A female character stands in front of an indoor swimming pool. A sign by the pool says PLEASE DO NOT SWIM, and, in smaller letters, "There isn't an animation for it."

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 23/07/2026

Google launches a selfie video sign-in option for account recovery, utilizing tools like liveness detection to mitigate deepfake risks, rolling out globally (Reece Rogers/Wired) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Pretty cool how Trump has already baked corruption into the Federal Reserve. There's no policy reason why you'd want the Fed to keep everybody on their toes, but it unsettles swap markets and so makes having insider information far more lucrative.

bloomberg.com

Warsh Leaves Bond Traders in the Dark on Next Week’s Rate Move

The Kevin Warsh Fed is already putting its stamp on financial markets: Just days before the central bank’s next meeting, traders are still split on whether it’s going to raise interest rates or not.

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Mark to Markov Chain @jmsl.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

🤯 I realized this and had to look it up, fortunate son and sympathy for the devil are basically the same melody and definitely the same rhythm chords youtu.be/nnMjkJufTgo

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Creedence vs. The Stones - Fortunate Son vs. Sympathy for the Devil (folk acoustic variation #1)

YouTube video by deja deja

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Employers can "pay" for the benefits of their workers through our general regulatory and tax system as well as much higher capital gains taxes on real estate and corporate equity as well as higher dividend taxes.

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