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rob @ok-but-still.bsky.social · 14h
really rough day for me as an executioner, a job i otherwise adore
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joe a wilkins @joeonhere.bsky.social · 4h
Great reporting here. Vote blue no matter who! 💙🌊🗳️
newrepublic.com
Blue-State Governors Are Rolling Over for Trump’s FBI
We asked Democratic leaders what they’re doing to prevent the president’s Orwellian attacks on political speech. Their answers were not heartening.
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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 30/09/2026
UPDATE: After our investigation into that company that buys struggling news sites and turns them into AI-powered content mills, it has halted publication -- at least for now futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com
That Company That Buys Struggling News Sites and Turns Them Into AI-Powered Content Mills Has Halted Publishing After a Futurism Investigation
Brown Brothers Media has halted publication at its wide-ranging AI-powered content farm empire -- for now, at least.
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joe a wilkins @joeonhere.bsky.social · 19h
How frightening! We're lucky to live in a free country where the richest business people control every layer of government as well as the media 👍
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joe a wilkins @joeonhere.bsky.social · 22h
In case you still think AI is useless:
futurism.com
People Who Drink Their Own Pee Are Obsessed With AI, Using It to Reassure Themselves That It's a Miraculous Cure-All
Urine therapy fans share tactics to bypass AI safeguards in order to reinforce their belief in the medicinal qualities of pee.
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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 30/09/2026
NEW: People who chug their own piss have emerged as MAJOR supporters of AI futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com
People Who Drink Their Own Pee Are Obsessed With AI, Using It to Reassure Themselves That It's a Miraculous Cure-All
Urine therapy devotees are sharing ways to break past AI guardrails in order to brainstorm ways to use pee as medicine.
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stuart @stuartp.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
schedule this man an orbital lobotomy
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A judge has ordered the release of Douglas Stewart Carter, a 71-year-old Black man who has spent decades on death row for a 1985 killing he did not commit. He spent 41 years in prison.
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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.
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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 28/09/2026
NEW: After we published an investigation into Brown Brothers Media, a company that buys struggling news sites and turns them into AI-powered content mills, we got a tip that completely gobsmacked me: one of the brothers has extensive connections to Ghislaine Maxwell futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com
You Know Those Three Brothers Who Buy Struggling News Sites and Turn Them Into AI-Powered Content Farms? It Turns Out One of Them Has Extensive Connections to Ghislaine Maxwell
Ideapod, a cornerstone brand of Brown Brothers Media's AI empire, has deep ties to convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell.
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Hell Gate *subscribe today!* @hellgatenyc.com · 25/09/2026
Hell Gate reporters are out in the streets talking to the people.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
i really can’t bring myself to care about AI anthropomorphism debates. “is AI thinking?” i don’t know. is a calculator calculating? questions for the philosophers. what’s important is that we put sam altman in prison.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 24/09/2026
Digitizing incarcerated people’s mail means companies can store those scans for years, which can chill speech, EFF’s @caragagliano.bsky.social told @jpradio.bsky.social. “We've talked to a lot of people...who stopped sending mail because they didn't want it to be scanned and put in this database.”
ijpr.org
Humboldt County jail joins others in banning physical mail amid contraband concerns
Humboldt County inmates will soon be unable to receive physical mail as authorities crack down on contraband. Critics say the policy could have unintended consequences.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 24/09/2026
Just when I think I can’t hate OpenAI and Sam Altman any more, new details come out about how ChatGPT helped a shooter plan one of the worst mass shootings in Canadian history in Tumbler Ridge, BC. OpenAI made an explicit decision not to report the user to authorities.
motherjones.com
ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals
OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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joe a wilkins @joeonhere.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Trump welcomes Xi Jingping and Peng Liyuan back to the US for the first time in three years with a well coordinated flyover
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
it's weird that ai got too dangerous to keep advancing right around the time money got more expensive to borrow
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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 22/09/2026
been thinking about the rush of technologies -- explosive drones, remote gun turrets, killer robots -- that reduce the space between action and consequence so far that you can fire a deadly weapon from your browser window futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com
Wild New Website Lets You Shoot "Less Lethal" Ammunition From Gun Turrets in a Firing Range
A new website called Shov allows users to "shoot guns on the internet" by remotely-controlling a weapon right inside their web browser.
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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
> “I felt no joy in the work or that I was contributing to society in any way.” A bullshit machine for bullshit jobs
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joe a wilkins @joeonhere.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Oh brother
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joe a wilkins @joeonhere.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
10 mins apart lol
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 19/09/2026
Workers in New York seek to create first AutoZone union as company resists
theguardian.com
Workers in New York seek to create first AutoZone union as company resists
Company may have spent about $200,000 to fight union effort in White Plains, where 11 people can vote to join UAW
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 18/09/2026
UN probe finds US unlawfully struck an Iranian school and sports centre, killing children; White House rejects findings.
aljazeera.com
United Nations says US may have committed war crimes in Iran: What it means
UN probe finds US unlawfully struck an Iranian school and sports centre, killing children; White House rejects findings.
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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Stupid AI usage almost started WW3 Cool. Boy, am I glad that we're totally talking about the right kind of existential risk, like escalating interimperial rivalries, or climate change, and not this "AI will go rogue" stuff... right? www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...
 The intelligence report, circulated across the US military this spring in the midst of the war with Iran, immediately set off alarm bells: A Chinese ship in the Middle East was transporting components of a nuclear weapons program.

The US military swung into action with plans to intercept the vessel, according to four sources familiar with the episode. According to two of the sources, armed members of the US military were preparing to board the ship. Military planes were in the air, one of those sources and another source familiar with the incident said.

It was only just before the planned operation that officials dug deeper into the report put together by a special operations command analyst and found it had been generated with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) — and that a chatbot the analyst had used inaccurately identified the material the ship was carrying. CNN was not able to learn what the misidentified cargo was.

The report, according to one of the sources, was “entirely false.” But it also “almost started a war,” the source said. Any US operation against a Chinese vessel could have risked spiraling into an armed conflict between the two nations.
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joe a wilkins @joeonhere.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Clownvis on office hours
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joe a wilkins @joeonhere.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Fascinated by this worldview where the main thing post-Trump is to chisel his name off plaques, and not end the war against Iran, stop the genocide in Palestine, release Maduro and Flores or lift the deadly sanctions on Cuba. Empire is as it always was
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I have been yelling since 2021 about how using synthetic text extruding machines for information access is a TERRIBLE IDEA. And yet and yet and yet: they are marketing so heavily that way that people keep falling for it. edition.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...
edition.cnn.com
Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics
The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war
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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Here's a list of every media company we've linked to Brown Brothers Media: futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com
Here's Every Known Publication Owned by Brown Brothers Media, Which Buys News Sites and Turns Them Into AI-Powered Content Mills
The little-known company Brown Brothers Media operates a vast media empire. Here are the many sites we've linked to the network.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
New from 404 Media: Georgia State has rescinded a job offer given to Samuel Tunick, the activist who allegedly wiped his GrapheneOS phone before DHS could search it. Tunick says the case is "textbook political repression". Now can't study or work at the university www.404media.co/university-r...
404media.co
University Rescinds Job Offer to Activist Who Allegedly Wiped Phone Before DHS Could Search It
Samuel Tunick allegedly wiped his GrapheneOS phone before CBP officials could search it, in what has become a high profile civil liberties case. Now Georgia State University has rescinded a job offer ...
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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
NEW: Brown Brothers Media is the most successful media company you've never heard of. For years, its success was fueled by AI, fake writers, and fake reporting. When we started asking questions, BBM started mass-deleting content. Somehow, what came next was even worse. futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com
How Three Brothers Built an AI Slop Empire by Buying Legitimate News Sites and Turning Them Into Zombie Content Farms That They Say Get 50 Million Page Views per Month
Brown Brothers Media is a media empire raking in millions of clicks with AI, fake writers, and plagiarism.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A Philadelphia family just bought their first home with a $10,000 first-time homebuyer grant funded by a group of Quakers It’s part of the congregation’s racial justice plan to redistribute wealth to Black residents in the Germantown area as a form of reparations
inquirer.com
A Philly family bought their first home thanks to reparations from Quakers in Germantown
Green Street Friends Meeting, a Quaker congregation in Germantown, pledged to spend $50,000 a year for 10 years as part of its reparations work. It’s helping Black Philadelphians become homeowners.
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Sam Biddle @sambiddle.com · 08/09/2026
The documents I obtained include an OpenAI contract with the Pentagon requiring that the military AI it sold to Hegseth would maximally comply with the military's commands. The story behind this doc became very strange (thread) theintercept.com/2026/09/08/p...
theintercept.com
The Pentagon Asked OpenAI for Artificial Intelligence Designed to Rarely Say No
The U.S. military’s desire for an AI tool with “minimal refusal rates” was revealed through a FOIA lawsuit filed by The Intercept.
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joe a wilkins @joeonhere.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Scott Bessent's Congressional testimony interrupted by multiple antiwar protestors with banners demanding "no war on Iran"
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Oaf @languidoaf.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
CEO of Taco Bell: we’re actually worried that some of our upcoming items could destroy humanity as well
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 13/09/2026
Texas prisons showed what happens when independent journalism is replaced by propaganda. Now the same thing is happening to Stars and Stripes.
freedom.press
The Stars and Stripes firings look familiar to those behind bars
What censorship of prison newspapers can tell us of where the military news outlet may be headed
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KB @bkeithb.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Africa's solar installations rose a record 54% in 2025. In Q1 2026 alone, 15 African markets imported $400m of panels. The projects are built and financed by China, and the reason they're affordable is two decades of Chinese industrial policy. socialistchina.org/2026/09/11/s...
socialistchina.org
Sunlight and sovereignty: the Chinese technology behind Africa’s solar boom - Friends of Socialist China
Africa’s solar installations rose by a record 54 percent in 2025, and 15 major African markets imported more than $400 million worth of solar panels in the first quarter of 2026 alone – more than two-...
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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 11/09/2026
okay i have to admit this is pretty hilarious futurism.com/advanced-tra...
futurism.com
Lawyers Already Lining Up to Defend Victims of Cybercab Crashes
Tesla's new two-doored coupe already has lawyers frothing at the mouth to litigate the first ever accident involving a Cybercab.
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Pauline Park @paulinepark.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
#GeorgeWBush used #NineEleven as a pretext to launch the #IraqWar even though it had nothing to do with 9/11; 2,996 Americans & 1,455,590 innocent #Iraqis died because #JoeBiden, #HillaryClinton & a majority of Senate #Democrats voted to authorize that illegitimate war...
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 10/09/2026
A far-right hacker that touts cyber attacks on leftist sites has close ties to DataRepublican, the X account of a Pentagon employee.
theintercept.com
Pentagon Employee DataRepublican Posts Inside Info About Hacks Against the Far Left
A far-right hacker posts in tandem with DataRepublican, the X account of Pentagon employee Jennica Pounds, about hacks against the left.
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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
"Imagine that AI is told to behave like capital, and behaves like capital, and causes destruction because it behaves like capital" ... sure sounds like the problem might be capital?
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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The more I dig into Alpha School, the more it becomes almost an incomprehensible manifestation of every dystopian possible future I ever imagined. Surveilling students while they're on computers and then detecting "anti-patterns." (This is from a report by a former Alpha parent.)
That’s because ALPHA had introduced something called “Anti-Patterns.” This was their way of identifying when students were not using the apps “correctly.” If a student was idling, not looking at the screen, taking too long to answer, or not following a specific order of lessons, an anti-pattern would be triggered. Even if the child was on the computer for 25 minutes, their minutes wouldn’t count if an anti-pattern was detected.
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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 09/09/2026
NEW: In one of the most horrifying stories I've ever reported, I found that Facebook is hosting huge quantities of AI-generated videos of violent child abuse -- kids being beaten, burned, and far more But the genuinely shocking thing was how little Meta seems to care futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism headline:

> Facebook Is Hosting Huge Numbers of Horrifying AI-Generated Videos of Violent Child Abuse, and Meta Is Barely Even Pretending to Care About Taking Them Down

> Facebook is filled with AI-generated videos of children being beaten, burned, and bludgeoned with heavy objects. Meta doesn't seem to care.
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Lloyd’s Soil @toil.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
All this computer crap has got to go
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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Grateful to @futurism.com for writing this story about what is happening at Alpha School. Includes quotes from the brilliant @audreywatters.bsky.social, described to me today as the "poet laureate" for advocates of our shared humanity. futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com
AI School Hooking Children Up to Heart Monitor in Front of Class While Playing Critiques of Their Work
The controversial AI-focused private school Alpha School is making its students do some unusual things before enrolling.
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joe a wilkins @joeonhere.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Yeah sorry dude I can't bother with all that right now. I'm on hour four of waiting in line for NeeDoh.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 08/09/2026
this next 12-24 months is going to be EXTRA FULL of bipartisan, xenophobic, protectionist legislation designed to protect giant and shitty U.S. companies from competition under the pretense of privacy and national security
cnbc.com
Automakers urge Congress to permanently ban Chinese connected vehicles in U.S.
Major automakers in the U.S. are urging Congress to ban the domestic sale, import and manufacturing of Chinese connected vehicles, hardware and software.
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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
NEW: Journalist Kaitlin Durbin accused Cleveland.com of publishing an AI "Express Desk" article under her byline — without her knowledge or approval — while she was away on her honeymoon. The Express Desk "uses AI tools to assist in producing content." futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com
Journalist Accuses Ohio's Main Newspaper of Slapping Her Name on an AI "Express Desk" Article Without Her Knowledge, While She Was on Honeymoon
A journalist accused Cleveland.com of publishing an AI "Express Desk" article under her byline without her consent, knowledge, or approval.
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Screamer Jim @screamerjim.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Happy Labor Day
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
(NBC News) — It is now the least rewarding time to be a worker in the U.S. economy since the government started keeping track. @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...
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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
OpenAI is now facing more than 50 consumer harm and wrongful death lawsuits alleging that extensive use of ChatGPT resulted in psychological harm, physical injury, and even the deaths of users and/or those around them. futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com
OpenAI Is Now Facing Over 50 Consumer Harm and Wrongful Death Lawsuits
OpenAI was hit with 30 new lawsuits overs its alleged role in the Tumbler Ridge school massacre. It now faces over 50 consumer harm lawsuits.
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