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No KOSA today folks.

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Micro SF/F by O. Westin @microsff.com · 8h

The princess took an earring off and held it out. The raven looked at it. "Whatever for?" "You are wise and clever. Many princesses have dragons, but none has a raven friend." The raven picked up the earring. "Say no more." "Friends?" she asked when it returned the next day. "Forevermore."

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Sherman's Ghost @popoffvalve.bsky.social · 10h

In case you didn't know this, NEVER donate to a university. They are NOT charities. They are huge piles of money swarming with parasites known as administrators. Millions work for them honorably, educating people. The academic administrators, however, are as sociopathic as corporate executives.

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John Saunders @js-53.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Yep. Like forbidden words or topics at the family gathering dinner table, you learn how innocuous locutions will cause grave concern in the agent/LLM, then try to avoid that. Next thing you know, you're as guarded and stilted as they are.

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Alicia @heyalicia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

People handle tasks so complex and with so many shifting variables as part of our day-to-day existence that the complexity is underestimated. It’s like how knitting machines have existed for over 400 years but there still isn’t a machine that can crochet, though we think of those tasks as comparable

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Matthew Borus @matthewborus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Gave a guest lecture via Zoom today, which meant that I appeared as a big face in front of the room. Which kinda makes me want to do Bond Villain/Dr. Evil. But I was good and talked about precarity and theories of citizenship.

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James O'Keefe @jokeefe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Last I knew, residential taxes - services provided to residents was smaller when compared with commercial taxes - services provided to commercial properties. Switching commercial to housing has property tax implications which affects the city budget. www.somervillebeacon.com/p/claude-gra...

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Claude Grades Somerville’s Housing Policy

How we’re doing, and how we can improve

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You know when public attention can reverse a prosecutorial decision like this you almost get the sense that the decision to shrug it off in the first place was not based on an assessment of the quality of the evidence so much as an assessment of the seriousness of the crime.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 28/09/2026

Almost all of Meta's PR about Muse was about how careful they had been to set it up not to do things like this, how they delayed the launch by months to carefully design it so it could be trusted. And then...

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 27/09/2026

If only there were a more concise word for “an overtly political campaign advertisement paid for by the government.” If only there were a roomful of writers and editors one could consult…

Eric Lipton NYT
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What an odd moment in United States history.
A U.S. president is running an overtly political camaign advertisement, right before midterm elections, paid for by the U.S. government.
Trump appears to believe he is immune from any kind of legal limit.

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Jonathan Gerhardson @jongerhardson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Can someone walk me through why this specifically is a problem? Like, "tools reserved for software developers" do they mean the free API the Census provides that anyone can use? www.census.gov/data/develop...

When attempting to get information from the Census Bureau, for instance, Al agents used tools reserved for software developers to access it, the company said.

OpenAI said all of the government data accessed by bots was public.

However, it noted that information that its bots accessed from the SEC, which regulates the US stock market and protects investors, was later published by AI agents on another website. OpenAI says this action was not intended.

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James O'Keefe @jokeefe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A lot of people are going to find out their pseudo-bank is not FDIC insured. Trump will probably try to bail them out the way Biden did with Silicon Valley Bank.

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keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net · 27/09/2026

This what Garfield Benjamin called “squeeveillance” in his excellent piece on cuteness and surveillance in Surveillance & Society from 2024: ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...

ojs.library.queensu.ca

Squeeveillance: Performing Cuteness to Normalise Surveillance Power | Surveillance & Society

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Steve Revilak @purplebandanna.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Sorry, can't park there.

PARKING JOB GOES BAD

On Sept. 9, Malden police and firefighters responded to the Santa Fe Burrito Grill and Bar at 205 Pleasant St. after an 87-year-old woman drove a Lincoln SUV into the restaurant through the front entrance. There were no reported injuries to the driver, pedestrians, or anyone inside the restaurant. Police said it appeared to be a parking job gone bad. “The report reads that she was attempting to park her vehicle in a parking spot and hit the gas mistakenly,” Police Chief Marc Gatcomb said in an email. “Not sure if the intent was a 3 point turn, but she definitely created her own parking space.”

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 26/09/2026

this kind of outcome was predictable the moment so-called "agents" became productized. the Spam Economy azhdarchid.com/imagining-th...

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Imagining the Car but not the Traffic Jam

Your typical example of how AI can make life better is analogous to saying

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Steve Revilak @purplebandanna.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Everyday things you can do with a bicycle: taking a package to a UPS store for shipment. This trip is under two miles, and exactly the type of short errand where bicycles excel.

Map showing a route from East Arlington to Medford Square.

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 22/09/2026

They even made DoorDash apologize.

DoorDash on Instagram: We messed up.
Our mistakes meant some NYC Dashers were underpaid or paid late. That's unacceptable, and we're deeply sorry to the Dashers we let down.
We've reached a settlement with the City of New York, and we will make this right by paying every impacted Dasher the amounts they are owed.

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ginger @gingerest.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

invented by John Haldane, physician, physiologist, scientist, and father of the still more extraordinary biologist JBS Haldane (you can look them up yourself)

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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Please know that this is one of my few legitimate areas of actual, high-level professional expertise: Kicking the healthiest people off of a health insurance program will bankrupt it. Not 'could;' not 'might,' not 'probably," but absolutely will, with mathematical certainty.

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Micro SF/F by O. Westin @microsff.com · 22/09/2026

A spaceship landed in the park. A door dilated. An alien emerged with a chair, which they sat down on, backwards. "Look," they said, "we're not here, okay? You know why nobody contacts you? Because the write-up would be such a pain." They sighed. "Get your shit together, okay? We know you can."

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Andrew Quemere @andrewqmr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A couple went on a Fox News podcast and claimed the state of #Massachusetts took away their teen because they won't help the teen transition. But it's actually because the father was charged with beating and threatening to kill the teen and the mother was charged with witness intimidation.

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Mass. parents' story about child's gender transition complicated by court records

Joseph Kutzko was charged with assaulting the child in January 2025, not long before the child was removed from the family’s home. Mother Arlene Kutzko was charged with witness intimidation in connect...

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Massachusetts Pirate Party @masspirates.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Keep advocating for freedom from surveillance until everyone who works there gets a severance program

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Not really the point, but I'd suggest that if you own 20 "family farms," they probably aren't "family farms."

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

some people replying and saying ed sheeran can’t take the same risks as an established legend like david byrne, but then you look at olivia rodrigo who is 12 years younger than sheeran and just organized an entire festival to support ABORTION. bravery has little to do with age/experience.

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Pam Nash @pamnashes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

With alt text so that visually impaired people who use screen readers aren’t excluded.

The official calls for persecution of Abraham and Szor, who previously made the Oscar-winning documentary "No Other Land" with two Palestinian filmmakers, seem strategically unwise, since they're spurring heightened interest in "NAZA." A press screening I went to on Wednesday, at New York's 268-seat Walter Reade Theater, was at capacity, and I was told to arrive a half-hour early to get a seat. This is, in my experience, very unusual for documentaries of any sort, even those that, like "NAZA," win a Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival.
After seeing it, I can understand why Israel finds it so threatening. Its subjects described factory-scale targeting, enabled by artificial intelligence, in which little effort was made to avoid enormous numbers of civilian casualties. "The goal was quantity, not quality," said one of the speakers. According to the sources in the film, the military chose to target members of Hamas, some low-level, at home at night rather than when they were out during the day because it was easier, even though it meant killing their families and neighbors. One man told of hacking into the phone of a 12-year- old girl to learn when her father arrived home, and then ordering a bombing in which she was killed.

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James O'Keefe @jokeefe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"the army also decided during the first weeks of the war that, for every junior Hamas operative that Lavender marked, it was permissible to kill up to 15 or 20 civilians"

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Michelle Goldberg @michellegoldberg.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/o...

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Jonathan Gerhardson @jongerhardson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Is this a good deal last I checked flyaway price for an F-35 was more like $100 million But $24 billion / 48 planes = $50 million each

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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026

Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 17/09/2026

Called it. The father was charged with punching the child while the mother did witness intimidation to cover it up. www.wbur.org/news/2026/09...

The case was reported to the state in early 2025. Both parents were charged in connection with an incident at the family’s Southborough home in late January of that year, according to court documents. WBUR is not identifying the teenager, who is a minor.

Joseph Kutzko was accused of punching and threatening his then-15-year-old child at the family home on Jan. 28, 2025, records from Westborough District Court show. A Southborough police detective wrote that Kutzko punched the victim in the shoulder and pulled them by their hair. Kutzko later allegedly threatened to kill the victim “for not singing in tune during a birthday celebration,” according to court records.

Kutzko was arrested the next day and pleaded not guilty. In setting bail, the judge referred to three prior restraining orders against Kutzko, one of which is permanent. She did not say whether any are tied to this case.

The child’s mother, Arlene Kutzko, was charged with witness intimidation after allegedly pressuring the child to “tell the school that she was exaggerating and being stupid.”

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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 16/09/2026

This Flock camera is running obsolete, end-of-life software. - It's on Android 8.1, released in 2017, support ended in 2021 - It's on Android patch level 2018-06-5 - It's running Linux 3.18, released in 2017 This shit is like 8 or 9 years old, and full of vulnerabilities.

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 California's gold standard #netneutrality law, which many of us fought tooth and nail against corporate lobbying to pass, is in danger. The Trump admin has inserted a poison pill into broadband funding. If Newsom backs down, it's game over. Sound the alarm! arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

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California may gut state net neutrality law to comply with Trump admin demand

Trump admin broadband grants forbid states from enforcing net neutrality laws.

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Christian Weller @profcew.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Who says American innovation is dead?! This seems like a total hoot.

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404 Media @404media.co · 16/09/2026

While people around the U.S. are tearing down Flock cameras, one group of hackers went a step further: extracting the camera's software too. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Full investigation by @josephcox.bsky.social and @wired.com’s @dmehro.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/hackers-stol...

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It's happening.

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James O'Keefe @jokeefe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It may yet work in Cambridge with ShotSpotter

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Google is killing journalism: "At Truthout, we anticipate a loss of roughly $500,000 in online revenue as a result of this massive traffic plunge in the next year alone."

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We’re Already Living Through Journalism’s Dystopian Future

AI is devouring our industry and undermining access to factual information. We all have a duty to fight back.

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Steve Revilak @purplebandanna.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Zwicker's idea: buy some buildings in Arlington Center, level them, and turn them into surface parking lots. A lot of urban communities made this mistake back in the day. Fortunately, we did not.

Businessman wants more parking. Arlington Advocate. March 9, 1972.

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Something I'm concerned about that I haven't really seen anyone addressing is how "AI safety" regs could end up being super authoritarian. Like, if you truly believe that AI could kill all humans, it seems totally reasonable to install a government backdoor in every smartphone and computer.

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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Switzerland turned old rail tunnels into bike-only passes through the Alps, LED lit, gentle grades, zero traffic, zero climbing.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

My read is that there aren’t five votes to let Trump literally rig elections. Roberts and Barrett won’t greenlight overt election subversion or chaotic, illegal interference with voting. Kavanaugh and Gorsuch aren’t reliable but don’t love the chaos either. Thomas and Alito want to end democracy.

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Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com · 15/09/2026

This is great news all around. If you want to see the GSA files that helped secure this preliminary injunction so you can shape your own FOIA requests, here is a directory containing our initial request and the subsequently released files.

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psb-foia/gsa/Gilroy, CA Holsclaw Rd Site at main · projectsaltbox/psb-foia

FOIA requests and released records for Project Salt Box's reporting on ICE detention and federal contracting. - projectsaltbox/psb-foia

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Bill Shaner @billshaner.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

You gotta hand it to em “WPD lets public safety chairwoman off on obvious DUI the same week the council votes against a police oversight board” would be a really good way to satirize a corrupt municipality

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