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Writer - WaPo, USA TODAY, Guardian, WIRED, The Nation, etc. Chicago + UVA 🤙🏽+ USC Annenberg. Querying my historical fantasy novel. Joshua 1:9 🙏🏽 www.tiktok.com/@joshbereadin?_t=ZT-…

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Holy shit.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
One of these was literally a Trump 2024 campaign ad. The only difference is that it now says "paid for by the US government"
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Anna Lind-Guzik @alindguzik.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Hard to think of anything less abstract and more materially consequential than being pregnant
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Gremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This piece about AI meeting with religious leaders gave me conniptions www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u...
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Religious Scholars Met With Anthropic. What They Heard Stunned Them.
In a series of private meetings, the company consulted religious scholars to help instill morality into its A.I. models — and make the case that Claude could be conscious.
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JOSHUA @joshuwa.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
just saw a campaign ad for the Trump admin, paid by the US government, as a commercial during an NFL game…..
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JOSHUA @joshuwa.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Dolly was fizzine
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Parkscope Joe @parkscopejoe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is insane.
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NEW: According to a bombshell report in the New York Times, Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah threatened to walk out of Pope Leo XIV's Al encyclical launch in May because the pope rejected the idea that machines can be conscious.
Olah's team then privately lobbied the pope's advisers "to take the possibility of model consciousness seriously." Pope Leo XIV held firm.
For months, Anthropic has wined and dined theologians and religious scholars under nondisclosure agreements, hoping they would bless the idea that Claude has moral standing.
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EveryLibrary @everylibrary.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Read freely. Think critically. Vote thoughtfully. That’s the library-to-democracy pipeline.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 01/10/2026
This week's announcement of an "AI accord" was lazy extraction class performance art, designed to pretend corporate oversight still exists in a country increasingly too corrupt to function
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Trump’s ‘Morally Binding’ New AI Guardrails Are Meaningless Pudding
Corporations have long enjoyed creating toothless "self-regulatory" regimes that exist primarily to pre-empt real government oversight. While the quality of these orgs can vary somewhat, generally they're just a toothless pantomime designed to pretend that corporate power can effectively police itself for ethical and competitive breaches. U.S. history has a thing or two to say...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
8/ As the @nytimes.com reported, DraftKings uses machine learning and data scientists to entice losing customers with promos to keep them going — even if those are the customers at risk of becoming addicts. The company says it doesn’t unfairly target people.
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How DraftKings Uses A.I. to Target the Gamblers Likeliest to Lose
Data science helps determine who receives betting incentives, but the company has resisted using similar technology to protect gamblers at risk of addiction.
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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 🧵
Martin Kao, CEO of defense contractor Navatek, poses next to Sen. Susan Collins for a photo. Collins is holding a model of a boat in her hands. Behind them is a large sign with the Navatek logo.
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John Br👻OoOOOoOoo👻ks @johnbrooks.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Two brains in a trench coat
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JOSHUA @joshuwa.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
One of the most devastating insults i‘ve read
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JOSHUA @joshuwa.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Just read @nhannahjones.bsky.social piece, get to the end and of course this is the number of comments
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I wrote about who is actually making America “poorer and dirtier.” It’s not immigrants. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Who is responsible for this terrible state of affairs? The opposition party and immigrants, apparently. Vance went on to say, “The Democrat legacy of the last few years was that they bankrupted our country and left us poor. They left our country weaker. They left our border wide open and our communities less safe.”

But this account represents a preposterous inversion. Almost every problem Vance lists, the Trump administration has made worse.

The administration’s environmental policies have made American water and air dirtier. Its health-care, tariff, and tax policies have worsened inflation and increased the financial burden on most American households, even as incomes have grown. And its public-health policies have led to outbreaks of contagious disease.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 13/08/2026
🔇 🔇 🔇 My book, Deep Unlearning, is now available for preorders! I don't know how people write so many books because this one took a lot out of me. It turns out, I had a lot to say 😂, with editors cutting out 50k of my words 🫣 ✴️ You can now preorder it at www.simonandschuster.com/books/Deep-U....
Cover of my new book, Deep Unlearning: The Rise of AI and The Radicalization of a Tech Idealist. 

There are two concentric circles in the book, the left being circuits in black an white, and the right being a bunch of dots with orange accents. The cover background is cream. And the words are written in black except for "Un" which is in orange.
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
US data centers will be use more natural gas than any country except China, Russia, Iran and the United States. It's like we're inventing a huge new nation, just when the climate needs it least billmckibben.substack.com/p/the-two-ho...
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The Two Horsemen, Riding in Formation
Is There Suddenly an Opening for AI and Climate Sense?
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
That's a good question -- anyone know who the reporter is?
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 15/09/2026
“Dr Dan Wolfson is a clinical psychologist who specializes in grief. He worries that deathbots could isolate people during a time when they need (human) support. ‘Having community around grief is really important…’”
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‘I created my mom and talk to her’: AI ghosts and deathslop are changing the way we mourn
The rise of AI-generated tributes and bots for ‘talking’ to the dead has experts concerned more people will grieve in isolation
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Dael Norwood @dael.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The folks over at Votebeat, a nonprofit newsroom, reported out the goings-on in the Town of Fenwick Island, where hotels and vacation homes held in trusts are people, in functional political terms. Some good interviews with locals - the mayor, but other property owners, too
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In Delaware, corporations can vote in local elections. Some people are trying to change that.
A Delaware beach town offers broad voting rights to corporations, spurring broader debate over who should be allowed to take part in elections.
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JOSHUA @joshuwa.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Random, but anyone know any books that have a scene with someone waiting at an airport? Working on my novel and I have a scene like that and want to see a reference/example
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JOSHUA @joshuwa.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Think this is an underrated Ghibli
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This NY Times story is largely a summary of Trump’s anti-free-speech moves. But there’s an interesting nugget: Trump’s access ban against the Associated Press had a motive beyond the “Gulf of America” dispute. Trump wanted AP to give him rights to that photo of him after the Butler, PA, shooting.
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How Trump Is Wielding Power to Stifle Speech (Gift Article)
President Trump has harnessed agencies across the government to curtail press freedoms, a sweeping campaign that free speech advocates say will have lasting effects.
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JOSHUA @joshuwa.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
www.alternet.org/2021/07/poin...
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What the cult classic 'Point Break' can teach us about capitalism
Directed by Kathryn Bigelow, the cult classic Point Break follows Johnny Utah (Keanu Reeves), an FBI agent who infiltrates a band of bank-robbing surfers led by Bodhi (Patrick Swayze). Though Johnny i...
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JOSHUA @joshuwa.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Can we just end “letters of recommendation“ as a practice?
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
A Labor Day reminder: having a job is no longer enough to protect millions of Americans from homelessness. For many workers, the greatest threat isn't losing their job. It's that their job will never pay enough, never provide enough hours, never offer enough stability to keep them housed.
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Opinion | America Is Pushing Its Workers Into Homelessness (Gift Article)
The working homeless are casualties of our prosperity.
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JOSHUA @joshuwa.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The “controversy” about Hasan is really indicative of the asymmetry between the liberal and conservative media. Attacks on the Right make it to liberal media, not conservative media. Attacks on the Left are absorbed in liberal media and conservative media.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 05/08/2026
Exclusive: A Post investigation found that for-profit trade schools defrauded the U.S. government of over $300 million through the GI Bill, exploiting veterans with overpriced, short courses due to lax oversight and loopholes.
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How predatory trade schools drained $300 million from the GI Bill and cheated veterans
Trade schools fleeced VA — and taxpayers — of more than $300 million, often by teaching short and easy courses, a Post investigation finds.
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JOSHUA @joshuwa.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Feel like ”common sense” is too often a euphemism for “i refuse to learn any new information about this topic that could make me feel i like I should change my mind.”
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JOSHUA @joshuwa.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Silo is a great show
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 04/08/2026
Is Gianni Infantino’s time up as Fifa president? - The Latest
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Is Gianni Infantino’s time up as Fifa president? - The Latest
Gianni Infantino’s reign as Fifa president is in severe peril after the collapse of his plans to sell off parts of the World Cup to private investment. Lucy Hough speaks to columnist Jonathan Liew
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Kotaku @kotaku.com · 04/08/2026
Well, I guess Electronic Arts belongs to Saudi Arabia, private equity, and Jared Kushner now. kotaku.com/electronic-arts-official…
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Electronic Arts Officially Sold For $55 Billion
With the closing of the market today comes the second-biggest acquisition in gaming history
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Reuters @reuters.com · 04/08/2026
EXCLUSIVE: US has used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war, sources say reut.rs/4gc28C0
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EXCLUSIVE: US has used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war, sources say
The U.S. Army has used up much of its stockpile of highly accurate long-range missiles during its five-month war with Iran, according to three people familiar with the data, raising concerns about the military's ​readiness for future conflicts.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
“This sentence has five words. Here are five more words. Five-word sentences are fine. But several together become monotonous. Listen to what is happening. The writing is getting boring. The sound of it drones. It’s like a stuck record. The ear demands some variety. Now listen. I vary the sentence length, and I create music. Music. The writing sings. It has a pleasant rhythm, a lilt, a harmony. I use short sentences. And I use sentences of medium length. And sometimes, when I am certain the reader is rested, I will engage him with a sentence of considerable length, a sentence that burns with energy and builds with all the impetus of a crescendo, the roll of the drums, the crash of the cymbals–sounds that say listen to this, it is important.”

― Gary Provost
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Matthew Remski @matthewremski.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Part 2 with @nathanevansfox.bsky.social on the BS of JD Vance. "Vance cares about family lineage, but he only sees it through imperial dominance. I care about lineage because I see it through the ways that feminism has kept us alive and committed to each other." open.substack.com/pub/matthewr...
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41.1 The Anti-Vance Would Like a Word Pt 2 w/ Nathan Evans Fox
"Vance cares about family lineage, but he only sees it through imperial dominance. I care about lineage because I see it through the ways that feminism has kept us alive and committed to each other."
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JOSHUA @joshuwa.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
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Do not read JD Vance's new book. Read this review instead.
A review of JD Vance's Communion from an actual expert in his bullshit
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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
In "Why We Cooperate," Michael Tomasello draws on groundbreaking studies of children and apes to reveal the origins of human cooperation. Scholars Carol Dweck, Joan Silk, Brian Skyrms, & Elizabeth Spelke respond to his findings and explore the implications. mitpress.mit.edu/978026201359...
Photo of "Why We Cooperate"
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JOSHUA @joshuwa.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
It’s frustrating to see so much cynical culture warfare surrounding WNBA, particularly by folks who never watch any games.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 30/07/2026
Most plastic items are too small for recyclers to bother sorting and processing, or they're assembled in such a way that it's less expensive to just make new plastic. In fact, only 5% of Americans’ plastic finds new life. (Published Aug. 2024)
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When Is “Recyclable” Not Really Recyclable? When the Plastics Industry Gets to Define What the Word Means.
Companies whose futures depend on plastic production are trying to persuade the federal government to allow them to put the label “recyclable” on plastic shopping bags and other items virtually guaran...
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 03/08/2026
“Taken together, the past two years have seen more measles infections in the US than the rest of the 21st century combined. The last time a greater number of measles cases were recorded in a single year was in 1991.”
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RFK Jr tells US families to vaccinate children against measles amid outbreak
Health secretary, longtime vaccination skeptic, spent years boosting misinformation about vaccines including MMR
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David Sims @davidlsims.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
if I ever taught film criticism lesson one would be “you being smarter than the movie is not interesting to anyone”
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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
August 🤝 Sneaking Up On People
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People who work in education
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Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
8Bitdo FlipPad Mobile Gaming Controller for iPhone and Android available for order on Amazon ($29.99) amzn.to/4pTCx4e #ad
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JOSHUA @joshuwa.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Though i no longer work in journalism, part of the reason I still feel the impulse to defend mainstream news media, as imperfect as it is, is because it seems like so many of us are searching for the hidden conspiracy, when the powerful say all the evil stuff out loud in interviews and tweets.
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Ian James @ianjames.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
California generated more than half its electricity from solar in May — a new record @blancabegert.bsky.social www.latimes.com/environment/...
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California produced over half its May electricity from solar, a world record
New batteries to store solar electricity and low demand in May both contributed to high percentage of electricity that came from solar.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Like the hypocrisy and the open corruption, the naked, brazen lying is itself aspiring authoritarianism. They aren't lying to cover anything up. They're saying, "We know we're lying. You know we're lying. And we know you know we're lying. And there's nothing you can do about it."
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CNBC @cnbc.com · 31/07/2026
New York sues Kalshi, says prediction market is running 'illegal gambling operation'
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New York sues Kalshi, says prediction market is running 'illegal gambling operation'
It comes after a federal judge earlier this month denied Kalshi's attempts to intervene against the state's Gaming Commission.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
So CBS and others invested in a pro trump audience that won’t arrive, alienating their actual audience, and trump propagandists are losing audience bc people are souring on Trump. Also helps explain the increased racist shrieking as they try to farm engagement www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/u...
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How the Pro-Trump Media Ecosystem Is Splintering Ahead of the Midterms
Once united in support of President Trump, right-wing influencers are embroiled in feuds and losing viewers, creating a problem for Republicans in the midterm elections.
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