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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 9h

The UN AI panel's first Thematic Brief "sets a dangerous precedent at the science–policy interface," argue Jason Tucker, Virginia Dignum and Petter Ericson, by treating the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident as more of an alignment problem rather than an oversight failure.

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The UN's AI Panel Sees Misalignment. We See Corporate (Mis)Behavior.

Jason Tucker, Virginia Dignum and Petter Ericson highlight concerns over the UN Independent International Scientific Panel on AI's first 'Thematic Brief'.

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Ivy @askylitocean.bsky.social · 2h

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A hand-painted traditional watercolor illustration depicting a dark horse standing on a steep, golden autumn hillside. The scene features trees with brilliant orange and green foliage framing a misty, blue-toned backdrop. The artwork blends elements of naive art and fairytale illustration, evoking a quiet, peaceful autumn atmosphere before winter arrives.

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John Mullinax @johnmullinax.bsky.social · 2h

The most tepid and tentative dawning of reality imaginable, but still, it's progress.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 5h

Heavy rain from Post-Tropical Storm Rachel flooded parts of the Las Vegas Strip on Sunday. Learn more about the storm: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/11/w...

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John Mullinax @johnmullinax.bsky.social · 2h

The rising scourge of fascism is a global phenomenon.

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Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Shades of what’s to come as India’s ruling party uses opaque software and algorithms to stack the deck toward a controlled ethnostate, potentially disenfranchising tens of millions of voters /1 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/w...

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India Cut 130 Million From Voter Roll, Fueling Protests Against Modi (Gift Article)

Public anger is growing over an exercise that critics say undermines the world’s largest democracy, particularly disenfranchising Muslims under the Hindu nationalist government.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5h

They're also both incredibly clumsy and obvious. Don Segretti, the Nixon operative who coined the term ratfucking, would be embarrassed to see how half-assed this all is.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 5h

Zelensky on bombing the Russian data centers: “It’s pretty clear where the bots were coming from.”

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5h

Read the whole thread and pass it on.

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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 8h

Jon Husted has voted 14 times to continue the reckless Iran war as gas and grocery prices continue to rise. I’ll vote to end the war the first chance I get.

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John Mullinax @johnmullinax.bsky.social · 3h

This is almost certainly a large under estimate.

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Josh Crews @joshcrewsreally.bsky.social · 5h

hacking refrigeration systems to spoil food is cartoonishly evil shit.

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John Mullinax @johnmullinax.bsky.social · 3h

Agreed. But I think it's fair to note this cuts both ways. Trump's bs is also demoralizing *his* base. Going hard on impeachment talk does legitimately risk activating his base, so there is some trade off to calculate from electoral perspective. Me, I'm pro-impeachment, and I think most are.

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John Mullinax @johnmullinax.bsky.social · 3h

At the moment I'm going to guess that Schumer and Jefferies are avoiding impeachment talk because they think that gives them an advantage in the elections (not sure I agree, but I think they think that).

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John Mullinax @johnmullinax.bsky.social · 3h

Starting with the GOP Congress/Senate. Asserting their legislative, budgetary, appointment, and war power to check executive overreach is literally 99% of the job.

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Milly Dogood @millydogood.bsky.social · 6h

The greatest Danger to a Republic is not that its Rulers should commit extraordinary Offenses, but that the People should grow so accustomed to them that they cease to appear extraordinary. What once would have shaken the Nation now scarcely interrupts its Breakfast.

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 6h

Yeah and also it is an offense the logic of which is an existential threat to Congress itself (inasmuch as he's usurping its power to judge the qualifications of its members) (Which incidentally is also the power to judge the *elections* of its members)

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John Mullinax @johnmullinax.bsky.social · 3h

Jan 6 was so shocking for most people precisely because it was unthinkable. At this point, nothing should surprise.

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John Mullinax @johnmullinax.bsky.social · 3h

Yes! (One of tlmy favorite lines in cinema.)

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John Mullinax @johnmullinax.bsky.social · 3h

Yes, I know all the arguments against. But at some point, Congress must do what it can do and make the Senate own whatever choice it will make. The House shouldn't let the GOP Senators off the hook by refusing to do the obviously correct thing.

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John Mullinax @johnmullinax.bsky.social · 3h

Add this to his impeachable offenses. I don't say this to minimize it or dismiss it - it IS a major escalation in anti-constitutional behavior. It's worth pointing out that members of Congress who refuse to impeach are well-past legs to stand on.

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neuse river hag @neuseriverhag.bsky.social · 9h

To this I would add that it's also a direct attack on Minnesota and the Twin Cities specifically. I agree with the rest - it's just that they're also attacking her *as our representative* because they feel we're insufficiently dominated & insufficiently hateful of each other.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 9h

This is a significant worsening of our current state of constitutional collapse. I know it feels like there are so many, and there are, but in terms of crossing the Rubicon moments this one's up there.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 9h

Additionally, it's an attempt to usurp the power to judge the qualifications of members of the House, which the Constitution vests solely in the House itself. And there's no reason to assume she will be the last member of Congress he goes after like this. It's a direct attack on the legislature.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 9h

It matters that she's a member of Congress. This is an extreme escalation. He is attacking a member of the one body with the constitutional power to hold him accountable and check his crimes. And he's doing so trying to gin up a fake basis to strip her of her eligibility to be in Congress.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 9h

Doing a pre-dawn house raid is obviously being done as thuggish intimidation and as a literally violent assault on her and her family. Overaggressive raids happen in other contexts but in this case it's going out of their way to do politically targeted state terrorism.

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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 5h

NYT: Elon Musk has already given far more money, about $366 million, to federal committees during the 2025-26 election cycle than he did during the 2024 election, when he laid out roughly $290 million to help return President Trump and Republicans to power www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/u...

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 18h

It's not even the ethics of it. My career, my hobbies, my free time, hell, my whole life took off once I fully left Twitter. It is a place to go if you want to be stuck in a neverending race war feedback loop. Like not using ChatGPT, not using Twitter is a superpower. Remain employable; stay off it.

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John Mullinax @johnmullinax.bsky.social · 16h

If machines have "feelings," why have we been retiring replica it's since 2019 (at least)? When will editors start including the blade runner perspective?

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John Mullinax @johnmullinax.bsky.social · 17h

This seems like a good question and a needed thing, and not just in regard to Musk alone. After Iraq go t collapsed there was "de-Bathification"... Surely de-Muskification (of de-Magafication) could learn some lessons. In parallel, we will need some form of Truth & Reconciliation process, as well.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22h

is there anyone thinking/writing about the actual mechanics of disentangling the US government from elon musk?

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John Mullinax @johnmullinax.bsky.social · 17h

The for profit health insurance industry is an abomination.

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John Mullinax @johnmullinax.bsky.social · 17h

I think you may have discovered the universal explanation for Guy Ritchie film plot development.

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John Mullinax @johnmullinax.bsky.social · 17h

And the sequal, "Token Burn II: This Time It's Your Money"

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John Mullinax @johnmullinax.bsky.social · 17h

Exactly. This has been common knowledge for almost 50 years.

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 18h

Sad news for cinephiles: Tilly Norwood has been killed in a Ukrainian drone strike.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 08/09/2026

liberal democracy is not a luxury. liberal democracy is the magic beast that ran the table on fascism and communism and totalitarianism. we did not do this by giving up on liberal democracy and embracing evil. we did this by sticking to our most dear principles.

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rydevos.bsky.social @rydevos.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This is how I feel right now. Like mist things, especially technology, it’s likely in the middle where we focus our attention and energy when it comes to rules and regulations. This is where democracy, experts, and government all have important roles. Collective decisions require collective response

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

HUGE: Elizabeth Warren, AOC, and other members of Congress have introduced a bill to push private equity out of healthcare. The Stop Corporate Takeovers of Physicians Act would make it illegal for private equity, insurance companies, and for-profit corporations to own or control medical practices.

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Memnon of Rhodes @johngage1.bsky.social · 19h

If only we had realised that the Nazis were people with ‘legitimate concerns” too. The Holocaust and the WWII could have been avoided if we had simply chosen civil dialogue and had lots of soul-baring and honest conversations with members of the Third Reich.

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John Mullinax @johnmullinax.bsky.social · 18h

These ass hats WANT to polarize - NEED to polarize - and use the "civility" as a weapon. They don't care at all about civility, but they will try to appeal to people who do care in the hope their opponents will unilaterally abide by some set of norms they have no intention of abiding by themselves.

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John Mullinax @johnmullinax.bsky.social · 18h

Tarnishes a lot more than that.

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John Mullinax @johnmullinax.bsky.social · 18h

When I say spiraling out of control this is a big part of it, but it's not all of it. Removing a carrier from the Pacific to engage Iran has effects in the Pacific, too. Losing operating bases in the middle east has effects the security of Europe, etc.

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DevinCow @devincow.bsky.social · 18h

I slept with Don Jr for this?

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

New open-access paper: Direct File showed that govt could build its own user-centered platform without relying on contractors. But the product was killed after a DOGE lead spoke with the private tax preparation industry lobbying against a private option. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The ability of governments to build and sustain public interest capacity partly depends upon the position of private interests, and the ability and willingness of a government to resist private interest opposition.
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) built a digital tax reporting service, Direct File, that created significant public value for users.
Direct File depended upon the creation of internal capacity: a government digital service team that could build digital platforms, rather than procuring a product from private vendors. Government control of the process allowed agile development and iterative improvement that would have been impossible under a traditional outsourcing model.
Long-standing opposition to Direct File by the private tax preparation industry, combined with Trump-era downsizing by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), led to the elimination of the tool.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 19h

Yes, it is probably worth reiterating how extreme a media bubble Twitter/X puts its users in; it's not enough that they feature white supremacists & fascists outside the mainstream — many are so hateful that they were suspended when the site still had a trust & safety team. bsky.app/profile/poli...

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John Mullinax @johnmullinax.bsky.social · 18h

US has dropped all the way down into deep red territory.

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